{"id":8752,"date":"2013-07-29T15:36:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T20:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2013\/07\/27\/"},"modified":"2013-07-29T15:36:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T20:36:16","slug":"reduced-to-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=8752","title":{"rendered":"Reduced to Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Behind the Thunder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I keep looking for one more teacher,<br \/>\nonly to find that fish learn from water<br \/>\nand birds learn from sky.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn about the sea,<br \/>\nit helps to be at sea.<br \/>\nIf you want to learn about compassion,<br \/>\nit helps to be in love.<br \/>\nIf you want to learn about healing,<br \/>\nit helps to know of suffering.<\/p>\n<p>The strong live in the storm<br \/>\nwithout worshiping the storm.<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpted from Reduced to Joy by Mark Nepo, published by Viva Editions, ISBN: 978-1-936740-57-4, $15.95,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivaeditions.com\"target=\"_blank\"> www.vivaeditions.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8763\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8763\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ReducedtoJoy_lowres.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ReducedtoJoy_lowres-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ReducedtoJoy_lowres-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ReducedtoJoy_lowres.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reduced to Joy - Mark Nepo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>About Mark Nepo:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark Nepo, the New York Times bestselling author has been called \u201cone of the finest spiritual guides of our time,\u201d \u201ca consummate storyteller,\u201d and \u201can eloquent spiritual teacher.\u201d His many books have been translated into more than twenty languages. His new book,  &#8220;Reduced to Joy&#8221; (Viva Editions, August 2012), gets to the stuff of happiness with deep wisdom, poems, and personal revelations that reminds us all of the secret and sacred places within, forgotten in the noise and chatter of our busy, distracted 21st century lives. Profound and accessible, Nepo\u2019s writings are tools for staying close to what matters. For more information about Mark Nepo, please  visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MarkNepo.com\"target\"_blank\">MarkNepo.com<\/a><\/em><em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t feature poetry much on The Magical Buffet, so you know that the poem excerpted from Mark Nepo&#8217;s new book &#8220;Reduced to Joy&#8221; from Viva Editions must be pretty special if I&#8217;m publishing it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}