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The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)

This book is a self-help guide that encourages readers to find fulfillment and joy in their current lives through mindfulness practices and a focus on the present moment. more

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Mark Nepo
Mark Nepo

Mark Nepo is an American poet, writer, and speaker known for his profound spiritual insights and unique perspectives on life. His work blends poetry, philosophy, and psychology, aiming to help readers explore the meaning of life and the inner peace within. more

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“We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how surrender can hold us up.”

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“Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.”

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“The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of thingsstop being a glass. Become a lake.”

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