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Your Heart Will Touch Everything It Meets

11/18/2019

Your Heart Will Touch Everything It Meets

"Your Heart Will Touch Everything it Meets" - acrylic on aluminum panel, 12 x 16. Available here and at Artfinder.

We've arrived at the final chapter in The One Life We're Given by Mark Nepo. Whether the chapter, Staying Tender and Resilient, is better than all the others or I am just reluctant to put the book down, I've underlined every sentence.

Before you panic and leave the blog page in fear of a million quotes, I think we can safely sift the chapter down to handfuls of words in which Nepo expresses his hopes for us, his own dear readers:

"...I hope you softly trip into unexpected moments of bareness, where the glow of your heart will touch everything it meets, and you can't help but remember how dear it is to be alive."

That's a heap load of whoa there. How many of us hope to trip into moments of bareness? Or allow our hearts to touch everything they meet? How to stay in that openness and vulnerability and to stop resisting where life wants to take us - that is the challenge. How to lean in when all of our instincts are to look away. How to listen to our pain and figure out what it is saying to us. Sharing our stories is a good way to lean in. Sometimes we learn something in the telling. Other times in the listening. And now and again, a story shared in a moment of vulnerability helps us softly trip into bareness together.

10 Comments

Dotty Seiter link

11/18/2019 11:17:28 am

Jen:

yes.
yes.
yes.
yes.
yes to everything in today's post.
yes to you.

jen

11/18/2019 11:54:06 am

Dotty! Yes!!!!!!! Thank you, dear friend. Yes to all of this. And yes to YOU!!! xoxoxxoxo

Carl Stoveland

11/18/2019 12:09:42 pm

Exactly right. It’s the uncarved block or the beginners mind. Being open and ready for the world to make itself known to you. Leaning incanbe difficult whenwearetaughttp do anything but that.

11/18/2019 12:11:06 pm

Carl! "...ready for the world to make itself known to you". Yup. That's the ticket right there!

THAMER AZULE-WRIGHT link

11/18/2019 12:49:00 pm

Jen, I always love and relate to your posts so much! This one is spectacular and I shared it with someone who needs this so much...one never knows how a quote will inspire others or guide them along the way. You are a guide & healer with your words. Thanks for being YOU!

11/18/2019 01:54:47 pm

Thamer!!! Thank you, sweet artist, for reading and sharing. But mostly for letting me know these posts matter, touch and maybe help heal a little. Sharing our stories can, and does, make a difference. Big hugs!!!!

Christopher R.

11/18/2019 09:33:04 pm

Jen your heart is touching me, not only through your brushes but also through your superb sifting.

I am taken too by your dear reader's comments, all very much on point.

Nepo, I'm happy to say ... has received his wish, your appreciation of being alive is obviously not only present, but refined and a pleasure to behold.

Noteworthy too that aluminum is one of our most recyclable materials, though I've not witnessed that to this extent before.

11/19/2019 10:53:59 am

Christopher! Thank you for your thoughtful comments and for reading this sifted and brushed post. But mostly for being a human whose heart touches everything it meets...including mine.

Carol Edan link

11/20/2019 08:49:34 pm

To meet life head on! Not to hide! Getting lost to find the way! Now you can start all over again!

11/20/2019 09:36:02 pm

Carol! Getting lost to find the way - omg I love that!!!

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