In this poem, Mark Nepo reflects on experiencing wholeness through allowing things to break.
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The essence of Dr. Howard Thurman (1900–1981) and his thought emerges in a message of hope, reconciliation, and love.
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As my spiritual journey deepened, friends fell away. As I shed one identity after another, I no longer identified with the people attached to them.
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In order to have faith in God, we need to have knowledge of God. Who is God? What does He do? What is considered an authentic source of this knowledge?
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
I seemed to hear God saying, ‘Put down your gun and we’ll talk.’
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.