Mark Nepo

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

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My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.

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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.

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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.

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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.

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We're quietly aching for something to celebrate

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We need experience to release what matters.

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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.

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The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.

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To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

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We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.

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Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

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“The only response to adversity or misunderstanding is to be more completely who we are—to share ourselves more.”

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The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.

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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.

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I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.

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“the humanitarian Carol Hegedus reminds us, “Our purpose is that which we most passionately are when we pay attention to our deepest…

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Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign…

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In the same way that we have to clean wax from our ears and dirt from our eyes, we're all asked to…

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As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt…

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In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the…

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I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went…

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“The human soul is to God is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it…

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“How often do we lose sight of what we're really after, insisting on all or nothing, when there is so much abundance…

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Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening…

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“Yet beneath all the talk of tragedy and grace, I have come to believe that we are destined to be opened by…

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“We are all made up of yearning and light, searching for a way out, afraid we will be shut in or cut…

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In life as in water, when we curl up or flail we sink. When we spread and go still, we are carried…

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“we may spend much of our time unaware and unenlightened, yet the presence of Truth and God, like a deep and ancient…

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“Practicing As a man in his last breath drops all he is carrying each breath is a little death that can set…

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It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And…

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“I listened carefully as he described his little girl's first steps. He encouraged her to keep her eyes on him, and only…

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“Just as life is made up of day and night, and song is made up of music and silence, friendships, because they…

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“Making Waves I would do anything for you. Would you be yourself? In the Hans Christian Anderson classic, The Little Mermaid, Ariel…

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“Burying and Planting The culmination of one love, one dream, one self, is the anonymous seed of the next. There is very…

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“Each person is born with an unencumbered spot, free of expectation and regret, free of ambition and embarrassment, free of fear and…

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“I have found that hesitation, more than anything, has been the invisible hitch that has kept me from joy. I’ve found that…

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“We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved,…

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I would rather be fooled than not believe.

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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

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