When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Everything in life opens and closes, sheds and renews. We are no different. Listening in its endless forms is the way we… — 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
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
The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who 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
Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the… — 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