Perhaps we migrate between love and suffering.
Oh praise the soul’s migration.
I fall. I get up. I run from you. I look for you.
I am again in love with the world.
“I have explored this topic before the terrain is so vast and deep that I want to dive in again and go further, so it won’t be an exact duplicate of what I’ve offered in the past. Most of this journey will be new. It’s a theme that is dear to me, one that keeps leading me and teaching me.” Mark Nepo
This weekend retreat is based on favorite teachings sessions drawn from Mark’s twenty books, intended to explore how deepening is the soul’s way of coming alive in the world. Just as all healthy plants and trees root and shoot into full growth and blossom, so too the human soul in the life that carries it on Earth.
Under all the veils of circumstance, there is a radiance that informs all life. The gift of deepening is how we meet and drink from that radiance. In this retreat, Mark will open a heart space through which participants can better understand their own relationship to the gift of deepening and the radiance in all things. Through poetry, stories, and metaphors, Mark will unfold the archetypal thresholds that lead us to deepening and radiance. Through reflection, journaling, and dialogue, each participant will have the chance to personalize their own path to being a spirit in the world. All to encourage each other to engage in our own conversation with the Universe. All to uncover our own direct experience of the radiance that informs all life.
Topics on this journey will include “The Wisdom of a Broken-Open Heart,” “Inner Work and Service,” “We Are More than What Is Done to us,” “The Sorrow and the Peace,” “The Radiance in All Things,” and “Wandering Authentically.”
“When we can open our hearts and work with what we’re given, loving what’s before us, life stays possible. Then, through effort and grace, we do what we can with what we have. And when exhausted by all that’s in the way, we’re faced with the chance to accept and love what’s left, which is everything. This is how we discover that Heaven is on Earth.”
—Mark Nepo
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Please bring a journal.
Mark Nepo is a Great Soul. His resonant heart—his frank and astonishing voice—befriend us mightily on this mysterious trail.
—Naomi Shihab Nye, author of You and Yours, 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, and Red Suitcase
Mark Nepo is one of the finest spiritual guides of our time.
—Parker J. Palmer, author of A Hidden Wholeness and The Courage to Teach
Mark Nepo joins a long tradition of truth-seeking, wild-hearted poets—Rumi, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver—and deserves a place in the center of the circle with them.
—Elizabeth Lesser, Cofounder, Omega Institute, author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
Nepo is a consummate storyteller with a rare gift for making the invisible visible.
—Publishers Weekly
