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title: "2 Porch Quotes By Mark Nepo"
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> [The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/the-further-i-wake-into-this-life-the-more-i-realize-that-god-is/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-nepo/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f13/mark-nepo-1670_bleachers_the-further-i-wake-into-this-life-the-mo_1067955.jpg)

> [The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/the-extraordinary-is-waiting-quietly-beneath-the-skin-of-all-that-is/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-nepo/)

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## More by Mark Nepo

> [“Often we find it easier to think our way around things rather than to feel our way through them:”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/often-we-find-it-easier-to-think-our-way-around-things-rather-than-to/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/when-we-don-t-get-what-we-want-there-s-a-legitimate-grieving-and-then/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-nepo/)

> [Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/each-soul-on-earth-is-complete-unto-itself/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/a-living-symbol-that-can-call-into-my-moment-of-sadness-a-deeper/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/coming-out-while-there-is-much-to-do-we-are-not-here-to-do-under-the/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/the-greatest-thing-we-can-do-to-be-closer-to-our-own-lives-and-to-the/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/for-though-we-stubbornly-cling-believing-in-our-moment-of-hunger-that/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/perhaps-the-hardest-thing-i-ve-learned-and-still-struggle-with-is/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-nepo/)

> [A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/a-successful-creative-expression-is-one-in-which-the-person-who-has/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-nepo/)

> [No amount of thinking can stop thinking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/no-amount-of-thinking-can-stop-thinking/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/yet-beneath-all-the-talk-of-tragedy-and-grace-i-have-come-to-believe/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/the-glassblower-knows-while-in-the-heat-of-beginning-any-shape-is/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/we-work-so-hard-to-get-somewhere-to-realize-a-dream-to-arrive-at-some/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-nepo/)

> [Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/our-job-is-not-to-expose-the-mystery-but-to-participate-in-it/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-nepo/)

> [Pursue the obstacle It will set you free](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/pursue-the-obstacle-it-will-set-you-free/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-nepo/)

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