Selections for this week circle around the theme of letting go, and they all come from Mark Nepo’s book, The Book of Awakening (Conari Press, 2000).

In essence, shedding opens us to self-transformation. Paradoxically, those of us who refuse such renewal will, sooner or later, be forced to undergo transformation anyway as a result of being broken or eroded by the world.

-Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening