Our Authority of Being
An essay by Mark Nepo.
‘…All that was left was the bare fact of his own existence, the fact of his breath connecting him to the fact of all existence. He was a piece of life living—that was all.
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In discovering your own authority of being, you may want to spend time with the great poem SONG OF MYSELF by Walt Whitman. I urge you to read it slowly, and to be in conversation with the places it awakens in you.
And the next time you’re told you’re good or bad, the next time you’re ignored or rejected, I encourage you to practice your inner resolve; not by criticizing yourself or finding yourself wanting, but by climbing to that place in you that is immune to both submitting and resisting, that place of unquestioned certainty about the fact of life, which Walt Whitman confirms in SONG OF MYSELF when he says:
I do not trouble my spirit
to vindicate itself
or be understood;I see that the elementary
laws never apologize.I exist as I am—that is enough;
If no other in the world
be aware, I sit content;And if each and all be aware,
I sit content.’
Full essay:
http://parabola.org/2016/08/01/our-authority-of-being-by-mark-nepo/
‘A chance to make a connection.’
‘The self starter creates a spark, turning nothing, or what certainly appears to everyone else as nothing, into something.
The self starter doesn’t see it that way. That ‘nothingness’ was actually an opportunity, a chance to make a connection, to do something a little better than the status quo, to get things moving.
Has there ever been a project, an institution or a community that hasn’t needed that?’
-Seth Godin
New Moon
Power Path
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‘A New Moon is always a good time to reset and refine intentions and when it is accompanied by an eclipse it carries even more power. We are moving into a time of consolidating and collecting our energies for what’s to come and this New Moon is a great time to review where you have been and where you wish to go.
The most important thing is to know what you want. If you don’t know what you want, at least tell the truth about what you don’t want. Eliminate what does not work, what no longer fits, and open the possibilities for something new to become clear and begin to emerge.
The first few days of September will be a great time to go within and to make some inner decisions and personal commitments that will put certain things into action for you in the future. It is a time to set things up in the right way, realign your goals to match your heart’s desires, get the support you need, and make a plan.’
Blessings! ☆☆•*¨*•.¸¸