“ And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk to bloom. —ANAÏS NIN Mark Nepo
“ We’re drawn to live in the world until the fire within meets the fire without. We’re drawn to move through all the invisible barriers to find what we love, to love what we love, and to save what we lo… Mark Nepo
“ Regardless of subject matter, this is the only thing worth teaching: how to uncover that original center and how to live there once it is restored. We call the filming over a deadening of heart, and t… Mark Nepo
“ Misery If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. Mark Nepo
“ We can go below our hardened ways to the soft impulses that birth them. Instead of breaking the bone of our stubbornness, we can nourish the marrow of our feeling unheard. Instead of breaking the bone… Mark Nepo
“ When feeling badly about ourselves, we often try on other skins rather than understand and care for our own. Mark Nepo
“ Reflex or Response I did not survive to be untouched. The emotional patterns of our lives are very strong. They often come into being because we've needed them to survive. But sooner or later, we all… Mark Nepo
“ Of course, there will always be times that we need to find our very precise way. But more often than not, our image of a destination is only a starting point that we cling to needlessly. When we can f… Mark Nepo
“ Living is a conversation with no end, a dance with no steps, a song with no words, a reason too big for any mind. Mark Nepo
“ Being a Pilgrim To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim. We all start o… Mark Nepo
“ When wiggling through a holethe world looks different thanwhen scrubbed clean by the wiggleand looking back. Mark Nepo
“ The humanitarian Carol Hegedus reminds us, Our purpose is that which we most passionately are when we pay attention to our deepest selves. Mark Nepo
“ [E]ven through our limitations, we evolve rather than fail, the way a caterpillar becomes a chrysalis becomes a butterfly, and the succession of life's trials is precisely the unfolding we need to fin… Mark Nepo
“ When the Path Is Blocked When the path is blocked, back up and see more of the way. We are each a mountain for the other to climb, and often our path to love is interrupted by a mishap or a problem or… Mark Nepo
“ We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that th… Mark Nepo
“ To know God without being God-like is like trying to swim without entering water. —OREST BEDRIJ Mark Nepo
