“ The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own. Mark Nepo
“ The Necessary Privilege Not to feel is to stop the heart from breathing. So often, we war against sadness as if it were an unwanted germ, and pine after happiness as if it were some promised Eden, who… Mark Nepo
“ So long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth. —GOETHE Mark Nepo
“ Reframing what happens to us can be a healthy way to survive terrible things, or it can become a veil of denial that keeps us from moving on. Often, we simply have to trust that we will see the truth… Mark Nepo
“ I am more than I have shown you and more than you are willing to see. Let's work our love and know each other more fully. Mark Nepo
“ Despite all consequence, there is an inevitable honoring of what is true, and at this deep level of inner voice, it is not a summoning of will, but a following of true knowing. Mark Nepo
“ Breathe like a fallen leaf and think of nothing. Just breathe and let your heart and mind be carried, however briefly, by the spirit you can't quite see. Mark Nepo
“ Integrity is an unending process of letting our inner experience and our outer experience complete each other, in spite of our very human lapses. Mark Nepo
“ Being articulate is not a facility of language but a fidelity to vision. And so we are all articulate when finding the courage to say what we see. Mark Nepo
“ Within Young Leaves Wrapped within young leaves: the sound of water. —SOSEKI This delicate observation by this Japanese poet is filled with the quiet hope that embedded in our nature, even as we begin… Mark Nepo
“ Whether through the patterns left in snow, or geese honking in the dark, or through the brilliant wet leaf that hits your face the moment you are questioning your worth, the quiet teachers are everywh… Mark Nepo
“ What it really comes down to is the clearness of heart to stop defining who I am by those who have hurt me and to take up the risk to love myself, to validate my own existence, pain and all, from the… Mark Nepo
“ We often mistake the journey of healing as one that covers over a wound. But as wounds need air and light to knit and heal, our pain and sorrow need to be brought out into the open so we can be healed… Mark Nepo
“ We cannot eliminate hunger, but we can feed each other. We cannot eliminate loneliness, but we can hold each other. We cannot eliminate pain, but we can live a life of compassion. Mark Nepo
“ To move from controlling to trusting life is like exhausting ourselves by trying to put our arms around a river until we realize we have to enter the river and let the current take us. Mark Nepo
“ The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. —MARCEL PROUST Mark Nepo
“ The human soul is to God is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws. —BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE Mark Nepo
