Mark Nepo

We need experience to release what matters.

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We're quietly aching for something to celebrate

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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.

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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

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My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.

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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.

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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.

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We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.

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Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

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Who's to say the effort to be real isn't the beginning of wings?

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A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.

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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

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“Live Humble as a Dog Live humble as a dog and the world will come alive in your mouth.”

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We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.

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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are

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I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way…

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Love and grief enable us to feel how we're all at heart the same. In love and grief, which is always very…

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…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.”…

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“It seems that intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find…

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A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

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Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature…

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Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched…

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“How often do we lose sight of what we're really after, insisting on all or nothing, when there is so much abundance…

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Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that…

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The things that can restore us have to get in, too. This is what the wisdom of an open heart is all…

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To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us,…

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In truth, our aliveness depends on our ability to sustain wonder: to lengthen the moments we are truly uncovered, to be still…

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“The Pain of Becoming For the flower, it is fully open at each step of its blossoming. We do ourselves a great…

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Water reflects everything it encounters. This is so commonplace that we think water is blue, when in fact it has no color……

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When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us,…

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The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the…

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“Havin loved enough and lost enough, I'm no longer searching, just opening, no longer trying to make sense of pain but trying…

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“When the Path Is Blocked When the path is blocked, back up and see more of the way. We are each a…

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“What was amazing was that their small delicate hands were touching, their monkey fingers leaning into each other. It was clear that…

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“Every crack is also an opening. When in the midst of great change, it is helpful to remember how a chick is…

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“Regardless of subject matter, this is the only thing worth teaching: how to uncover that original center and how to live there…

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“Making Waves I would do anything for you. Would you be yourself? In the Hans Christian Anderson classic, The Little Mermaid, Ariel…

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“Just as life is made up of day and night, and song is made up of music and silence, friendships, because they…

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“We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved,…

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