I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“a living symbol that can call into my moment of sadness a deeper sense of plenitude and generosity that is always there,… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“over time, staying real becomes the work of keeping our actions in the world connected to the truth of our inner being,… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“feelings and times long gone come and live again, or basic truths hard to keep in view return.” — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Most sacraments are acts of breathtaking simplicity: a simple prayer, a sip of wine and a piece of bread, a single breath… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Yet beneath all the talk of tragedy and grace, I have come to believe that we are destined to be opened by… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“we may spend much of our time unaware and unenlightened, yet the presence of Truth and God, like a deep and ancient… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
In truth, our aliveness depends on our ability to sustain wonder: to lengthen the moments we are truly uncovered, to be still… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Of course, there will always be times that we need to find our very precise way. But more often than not, our… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“I have found that hesitation, more than anything, has been the invisible hitch that has kept me from joy. I’ve found that… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Just as life is made up of day and night, and song is made up of music and silence, friendships, because they… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“So many times, in our despair, we see our pain as something that will never end. In fact, this often defines our… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening.… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Often we find it easier to think our way around things rather than to feel our way through them:” — Mark Nepo Copy Share
When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want… — Mark Nepo Copy Share
“a living symbol that can call into my moment of sadness a deeper sense of plenitude and generosity that is always there, but not… — Mark Nepo Copy Share
“COMING OUT While there is much to do we are not here to do. Under the want to problem-solve is the need to… — Mark Nepo Copy Share
The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again. — Mark Nepo Copy Share
For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have to let… — Mark Nepo Copy Share
Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole. — Mark Nepo Copy Share
A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it — Mark Nepo Copy Share
“Yet beneath all the talk of tragedy and grace, I have come to believe that we are destined to be opened by the living… — Mark Nepo Copy Share
The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break. — Mark Nepo Copy Share
We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction… — Mark Nepo Copy Share
