Mark Nepo Quotes

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• Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.
• To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing…
• Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to…
• Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a…
• Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens…
• Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us,…
• We are broken open, or we willfully shed.
• Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
• The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the…
• To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and be transformed by…
• Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.
• We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
• I would rather be fooled than not believe.
• The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
• To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.
• It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And it is by…
• It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold…
• Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.
• No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.
• Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.

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