Mark Nepo

“Often we find it easier to think our way around things rather than to feel our way through them:”

— 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…

— Mark Nepo

Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.

— Mark Nepo

“a living symbol that can call into my moment of sadness a deeper sense of plenitude and generosity that is always there,…

— Mark Nepo

“COMING OUT While there is much to do we are not here to do.   Under the want to problem-solve is the…

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The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open…

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For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have…

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Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be…

— Mark Nepo

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

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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.

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“Yet beneath all the talk of tragedy and grace, I have come to believe that we are destined to be opened by…

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The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to…

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We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though…

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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.

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Pursue the obstacle It will set you free

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The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.

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“life is always where we are.”

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We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

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There is no getting around the fundamental fact that we need to interact with everything in order to manifest the wholeness we…

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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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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.

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Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience,…

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For being human, we remember and forget. We stray and return, fall down and get up, and cling and let go, again…

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The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds…

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“If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. We begin so aware and grateful. The…

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