“There is a gravity of spirit that pulls the essence of who we are into being. Our job, like all our sister… — 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
When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The things that can restore us have to get in, too. This is what the wisdom of an open heart is all… — 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
there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Most sacraments are acts of breathtaking simplicity: a simple prayer, a sip of wine and a piece of bread, a single breath… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Each person is born with an unencumbered spot, free of expectation and regret, free of ambition and embarrassment, free of fear and… — 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
