“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
The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open… — 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
Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience,… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
For being human, we remember and forget. We stray and return, fall down and get up, and cling and let go, again… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I would want to affirm how rare and magnificent and messy it is to be alive, how there is really nothing between… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
As nature erodes the earth into magnificent forms, life through endless experience opens us further and further to the essence of what… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“The truth is that life will break us and burn us at some point on the journey. This is not pessimistic or… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Everything in life opens and closes, sheds and renews. We are no different. Listening in its endless forms is the way we… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through… — 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
The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it — 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 the living… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
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 Image
