Drinking From the River of Light by Nepo, Mark -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Contents The River of Light The Life of Expression Part 1: Basic Human Truths

Why Write

The Thread The Necessary Art The Unexpected Utterance A Lifelong Process Yearning to Be Lifting Veils

The Gift of Vision

What It Means to See The Origins The Purpose of Will The Unexpected Dimension We Relate More Than We Author Keeping the World Together

The Art of Perception

What It Means to Perceive To See One Thing in Another The Web of Metaphor The Aperture of Intuition Releasing the Divine The Craft of Perception

The Chord in Our Heart

As a Tuning Fork The Inner Experience of Truth Life Marks Us Up Feelings Are Paints The Energy of Hope Fitting Things Together

Part 2: Being Shaped by Life

Unraveling the Self

The Riddle of a Self Love at First Sight Living a Making

Bearing Witness

Looking at Life Together The Power of Art Drifting in the Immensity Listening

The Instrument That Is You

What Is Voice? The Quarter Turn The Inner Critic Diving Down and Coming Up Love Your Window

Part 3: The Deeper We Go

Breaking Surface

The Endless Search Venetian Interior A Word about Effort

Giving and Getting Attention

Not Great but True Staying Close to What Is Sacred Pulling Threads Travel and the Writer’s Mind Stacks of Wheat

Understanding Practice

Placeholders When the Work Comes Alive The Monkey and the River The Practice before the Practice Going with the Stream Everything We Need

Part 4: Becoming One With

The Magic of Liberty

Slipping Through Living in the Gap Becoming the Poem The Empty Saddle

The Timeless River

What Matters Comes Slowly The Table Between Presence and Meaning Peering from the Edge The Wind Phone This Belongs to Everyone

Gratitudes Notes Permissions About the Author Also by Mark Nepo About Sounds True Copyright Praise for Drinking from the River of Light