Comments for Three Intentions

Comment on The Lesson of Winter by Phyllis

Phyllis — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:10:47 +0000

I am enjoying your Book of Awakening.

How can I find the scientific research for the Molly Vass quote: “If you place two living heart cells from different people in a Petri dish, they will in time find and maintain a third and common beat?”

Thanks!
Phyllis

Comment on The Lesson of Winter by Valerie

Valerie — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:18:53 +0000

Its been cloudy and gray for days outside and inside my soul too. No particular reason or crisis thank God–just seems to be as it is…I am reading the Awakening Book–English is not my first language so I am grateful I understand it. Thanks for sharing a little sunshine on all. I hope we may beat the winter blues…God bless

Comment on The One Conversation by Valerie

Valerie — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:11:15 +0000

If lucky we find our wings…love this…Sometimes in other stages of my life I have to find my wings again and again. Can you write about what it feels to have found your wings?

Comment on The Poems by maxine smalling

maxine smalling — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:58:36 +0000

Mark,
My daughter gave me one 0f your books for my birthday, awakening, and I was sitting in bed about to take a look at it and just stopped for a moment and decided to flip the tv chanel to Oprah and there you were. I could not believe it. I am reading everyday since the start of the new year and sharing with all my friends. You are remarkable and a true blessing. Your writings speak to the truths of life, they touch my soul, and are a tool to my resolution to find myself, to live my passions, to be authentically me. I thank Oprah, I thank you and I thank my daughter for leading me to you.
Blessings.
Maxine

Comment on The Descent by barbara

barbara — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:32:09 +0000

dear Mark
your words provide my soul with an opening to the light of acceptance as I struggle with finding a purpose for my being
thank you for your mindful work

Comment on The Descent by Maureen

Maureen — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:17:57 +0000

Lovely meditative poem.

Wishing you the very best in 2012.

Comment on In the Hut We Call the Self by Gayle

Gayle — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:37:57 +0000

Yes, learning to be present to all that I experience, and to keep breathing through it all. To say “Ah, here comes that feeling of betrayal and disappointment” and to watch it rise and rise, to keep breathing, and to watch it fall, fall back in to the ocean of my emotions. And to learn that this feels quite natural, to be this way with what I feel, to breathe rather than resist, object, or judge. And if I do, to watch my resistance, my judgment also rise and fall, and I just keep breathing, in and out. The peace that I experience is beyond my experience, and my experience guides me to it, as long as I remember to keep following the breath. And I begin to realize that the peace is ALWAYS there, and I always have access to it. Namaste, Mark. Blessings.

Comment on In the Hut We Call the Self by Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:06:37 +0000

Mark, thank you for continuing to share with us these deeply personal experiences of your journey here. They are offerings set in plain site that give any curious passerby the opportunity to reach inward toward their own experience in ways that are illuminated by the grace of companionship. Your courage creates courage. Thank you.

When joining you today, something struck me when I read this passage:

“Like many of us, I’ve come to associate the lack of agitation (lack of pain, fear, confusion, or anger) with peace and the presence of such agitation as being pulled into the tangle of the world. I’m learning, though, that the absence of agitation alone is not necessarily peace and that the presence of such difficult feelings does not mean we are necessarily off-center.”

I realized with a freshness that this struggle in my life, between what I perceive to be the ideal climate for peace, and the moments aplenty that jar and bruise and jostle, is rooted in my perception of one being greater or less than the other. Just sitting a moment with the thought that they are equal somehow lessens the resistance and creates a space of greater ease within me.

Thank you again!

Comment on In the Hut We Call the Self by Kimberley

Kimberley — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:02:01 +0000

The agitation is the silt coming up for you to see and grow through. We bring up the agitations to grow by. Steven Hairfields book on Karma explains this very well. Peace between our ears :~)

Comment on In Love with the World by Anna Davis

Anna Davis — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:10:44 +0000

i am so moved by your writing, it reaches into my being as deep as breath can be. i cannot express fully my gratitude towards what you are giving as a gift to this world! i cry with joy because when i read these things i feel like someone is singing what i haven’t found the words to say.
thank you.