1/11/2024 0 Comments Mark nepo fall![]() Instead, I’ve started to understand that it’s the rhythm between the two that lets us experience heaven on earth.” Over the years, I’ve stopped trying to get through the tasks and running to the next. And all the sudden it opens and there’s an expansiveness and a billowing of spirit. One day I can be plodding along, like an ant with the grain of sand. I feel like we are asked to be committed to this unending dynamism of what it means to be human. But what it opens is the next part of the journey. That’s not to minimize the difficulty of the loss-it’s genuine and it’s something everyone must go through. It’s not to deify the cancer, it’s not a thing to be romanticized. The field that it opened is what matters. Whatever opens us is never as important as what it opens. Just as it is not the loss of a loved one or the loss of a job. It wasn’t the cancer, it’s what the cancer opened. There was no way to get back to the life I had lived. When I went to go back out that door, it was gone. He said, ‘I think you should see someone else.’ All of the sudden, as most people experience, I went through a door. ![]() I didn’t pay much attention to it until a friend said, ‘You better look at that.’ I went to a sport doc because I really didn’t think anything of it. I was in a former life and a former marriage-and I had this lump start to grow. It seems like yesterday and a lifetime ago. ![]() During an episode of Super Soul Sunday, he shared with Oprah just how drastically this diagnosis changed his perception. When he was in his 30s, Nepo was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma. There are a number of things that have contributed to Nepo’s knowingness of how important it is to stay present in the moment, including his bout with cancer. Tonight at 7:00 PM EST on Oprah Daily, Oprah will sit down with poet and teacher Mark Nepo to talk about staying fully present and explore themes from his work The Book of Awakening-including how being creative can help boost your authenticity and presence in the moment. Visit the page with this week’s video on Being Fully Present every day this week for a new dose of inspiration. Every week, Oprah is setting an intention exclusively for Oprah Insiders, with reflections on topics like letting go, forgiveness, coming into your own, and more.
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