“And where is home? Is it where we begin or where we end up? Is it where we long to be or… — 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
“It makes me wonder now, in middle age, if being spontaneous and kind and curious are all parts of our natural ability… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
At the heart of each spiritual tradition is the question of how to be in the world without losing what matters, and… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
It is imperative that we find that vital element that brings us alive... the true vitality that waits beneath all occupations for… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How… — 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
“[E]ven through our limitations, we evolve rather than fail, the way a caterpillar becomes a chrysalis becomes a butterfly, and the succession… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
In life as in water, when we curl up or flail we sink. When we spread and go still, we are carried… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Living through enough, we all come to this understanding, though it is difficult to accept: No matter what path we choose to… — 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
We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us. — 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
