Mark Nepo

Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.

— Mark Nepo

Pursue the obstacle It will set you free

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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.

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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.

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Doing small things with love is the atom of bravery.

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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.

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…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

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We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

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Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.

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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.

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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

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This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.

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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.

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To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

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When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.

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The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.

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I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with…

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Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more…

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There is no getting around the fundamental fact that we need to interact with everything in order to manifest the wholeness we…

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At the heart of each spiritual tradition is the question of how to be in the world without losing what matters, and…

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If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing…

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Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once…

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The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through…

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I had over twenty years ago damaged the cilia in my ears. This has taught me many things. One thing I learned,…

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“Let Go of the Rice In a world that lives like a fist mercy is no more than waking with your hands…

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For being human, we remember and forget. We stray and return, fall down and get up, and cling and let go, again…

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The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to…

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“Most sacraments are acts of breathtaking simplicity: a simple prayer, a sip of wine and a piece of bread, a single breath…

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It is imperative that we find that vital element that brings us alive... the true vitality that waits beneath all occupations for…

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When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what…

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The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to…

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Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the…

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“What was amazing was that their small delicate hands were touching, their monkey fingers leaning into each other. It was clear that…

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“Regardless of subject matter, this is the only thing worth teaching: how to uncover that original center and how to live there…

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“Every crack is also an opening. When in the midst of great change, it is helpful to remember how a chick is…

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“Havin loved enough and lost enough, I'm no longer searching, just opening, no longer trying to make sense of pain but trying…

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“When the Path Is Blocked When the path is blocked, back up and see more of the way. We are each a…

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“If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. We begin so aware and grateful. The…

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“Reframing what happens to us can be a healthy way to survive terrible things, or it can become a veil of denial…

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“Whether through the patterns left in snow, or geese honking in the dark, or through the brilliant wet leaf that hits your…

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