If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for…

“Often we find it easier to think our way around things rather than to feel our way through them:”

— Mark Nepo

Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.

— Mark Nepo

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

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

“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

No amount of thinking can stop thinking.

— Mark Nepo

A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

— Mark Nepo

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

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

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

“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

“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

Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.

— Mark Nepo

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

Pursue the obstacle It will set you free

— Mark Nepo