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
Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and… — 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
Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Patience devastates us with the truth that, in essence, when we fear another, we fear ourselves; when we distrust another, we distrust… — 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
“feelings and times long gone come and live again, or basic truths hard to keep in view return.” — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to… — 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
