“ The heart doesn't know it's expanding with compassion anymore than a hawk spreading its swings knows it's being a hawk. Nor does someone acting out of love often realize they are being kind. Mark Nepo
“ The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail…. Whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. Mark Nepo
“ The Beauty of It If all I have is Now, where will I look for Joy? Without hope for the future, without hope that things will change, with no hope of finding what's been lost, and no hope of restoring… Mark Nepo
“ The Art of Facing Things What people have forgotten is what every salmon knows. —ROBERT CLARK Mark Nepo
“ Our crucial task when in pain or despair is not to let the sour feelings spill into everything, so that we stain our sense of the world. Yet we must also take care not to so contain our feelings that… Mark Nepo
“ Let's be in awewhich doesn't meananything but the courageto gape like fish at the surface Mark Nepo
“ It takes six million grains of pollen to seed one peony, and salmon need a lifetime of swimming to find their way home, so we mustn't be alarmed or discouraged when it takes us years to find love or y… Mark Nepo
“ If you had a sad childhood, so what? You can dance with only one leg and see the snowflake falling with only one eye. —ROBERT BLY Mark Nepo
“ Having an honest friend-one before whom you can dump all your heart's pockets and still feel that you are worth something-is a form of wealth that will buy you nothing but will give you everything. An… Mark Nepo
“ For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have to let go of what we want so badly and our life will unfold. For love is ever… Mark Nepo
“ Fearful people do not want to sit with broken people because they don't want to be slowed down - don't want to look at what is broken in themselves...When we dare to hold those forced to the ground, d… Mark Nepo
“ And where is home? Is it where we begin or where we end up? Is it where we long to be or where life puts us to make good use of our gifts? Mark Nepo
“ We must turn water into air in order to live, which for us means turning our experience into something that can sustain us. It means turning pain into wonder, heartache into joy. Mark Nepo
“ There are countless stories of people whose lives truly find their meaning after events force them to give up careers that they have been devoted to. Mark Nepo
“ Over time, staying real becomes the work of keeping our actions in the world connected to the truth of our inner being, allowing our True Self to see the light of day. Mark Nepo
“ How to feel the pain of living without denying it and without letting that pain define us. Ultimately, no matter the burden we are given—apartheid, cancer, abuse, depression, addiction—once whittled t… Mark Nepo
“ Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows. —NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ Mark Nepo
“ When we need it most, it is nearly impossible to see ourselves with compassion from the slit of a narrowed mind all tensed for battle. Mark Nepo
“ When we cease to surface our most sensitive skin simply to avoid conflict with others, we remove ourselves from all that is true. When we maintain ways we've already discarded just to placate the igno… Mark Nepo
