Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“I am more than I have shown you and more than you are willing to see. Let's work our love and know… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Love and grief enable us to feel how we're all at heart the same. In love and grief, which is always very… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us,… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
We travel so far only to land where we are. We imagine other lives, only to meet who we are. We seek… — 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
Water reflects everything it encounters. This is so commonplace that we think water is blue, when in fact it has no color…… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening.… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“When the Path Is Blocked When the path is blocked, back up and see more of the way. We are each a… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Burying and Planting The culmination of one love, one dream, one self, is the anonymous seed of the next. There is very… — 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
A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own. — 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
