Noteworthy: A Center for Healing Arts
was established in 2005 as a nonprofit branch of Pine Manor.
In 2006 we joined International Humanities Center as a project in their
wide scope of nonprofit works.


Our mission is to promote Healing Arts and provide care to the Caregiver.


Click here to learn more about our Care for the Caregiver program.

The Mark Nepo Project

“From time to time you meet someone who becomes a teacher. Last year I met Mark Nepo through his writing and poetry and he has been my teacher in contemplation and meditation. His words support me; they hold me in a tender way so that I can open to more truth and hold myself and others with more compassion.” ~Gail Warner

This year we will have a call to artists to participate in a wonderful fundraising project for Noteworthy and Pine Manor. Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over thirty years. Mark has given us permission to use his poetry in combination with art to create canvas and paper prints that will be an ongoing fundraiser in support of Noteworthy and Pine Manor. We are so grateful to Mark for sharing his writing and being a part of this project. Also, please note that he will be coming to Pine Manor to hold a weekend retreat in the end of March 2009. There will also be an evening poetry reading event in South Orange County on the Thursday before the retreat.

“For falling down is not about failure, but about experiencing as many of life’s positions as possible. It is how we learn. And getting up in not about vanquishing or conquering an opponent or circumstance, but about not getting stuck in one of life’s innumerable valleys. The truth is that we can’t avoid falling down and getting up, any more than we can avoid forgetting and remembering. It is how we integrate, one experience at a time, our human with our being.”

~from The Exquisite Risk

“Advice That’s Hard to Take”
When you pace at the edge of life ,
worried and afraid, mount your will
like an arrow of salt and plunge into the ocean of experience.

“Acequia”
Only when the fish let go
their dream of having arms
did they grow their magnificent fins.
~both from Suite for the Living

 

“We speak before we speak, with eyes and lips, in how we tip our heads, in how we lean like trees tired of waiting for the sun. We tell our whole story before we even open our mouths. Yet we frequently pretend that nothing in conveyed. We pretend we are strangers and deny what we learn before words.

We are all made up of yearning and light, searching for a way out, afraid we will be shut in or cut off or repelled back into the ground from which we are reaching.

This is enough to begin: To know, before all the names and histories drape who we are, that we want to be held and left alone, again and again; held and left alone until the dance of it is how we survive and grow, like spring into winter into spring again.”

~from The Book of Awakening