Mark Nepo Quotes
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My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire, and I find myself in the presence of love. This has always been so.
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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 part of who we are.
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Let the miracles, even the ones we don't want or see, unfold.
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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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To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.
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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.
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I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.
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…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.
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The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.
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In the same way that we have to clean wax from our ears and dirt from our eyes, we're all asked to clean out our conclusions and judgments, which block our heart from meeting the world.
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If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.
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The broken door lets in the light. The broken heart lets in the world.
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All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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We need to meet, embrace and work with what we're given. For what we want and what we're given often serve two different gods. And how we respond to their meeting determines our path.
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Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.
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Who's to say the effort to be real isn't the beginning of wings?
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In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.
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Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.
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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.
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The world needs awakened souls the way a body needs healthy cells.
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To love by admitting our connection to everything is how we stay well.
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When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.
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I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.
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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.
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