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Mark Nepo Inspirational Quotes (83)

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The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.
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Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.
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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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As nature erodes the earth into magnificent forms, life through endless experience opens us further and further to the essence of what matters. Each time I've been opened further, the way I experience life and receive things has changed.
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Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.
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The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.
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I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.
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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.
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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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Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.
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To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.
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What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.
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If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.
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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.
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Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.
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