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Mark Nepo Inspirational Quotes (83)

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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.
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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
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The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.
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Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
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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 of suffering is crossed.
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Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.
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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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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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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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Joy in what we do is not an added feature it is a sign of deep health.
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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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We need experience to release what matters.
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The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.
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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.
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Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.
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Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred
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When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.
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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 journeying is to be a pilgrim.
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…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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