Quotes by Mark Nepo

Mark Nepo

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Sky

Teacher

Water

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…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

Everything Happens For A Reason

Pathways

Unexpected

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A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.

Forget

Pain

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A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

Creative

Expression

Successful

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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.

Accepting

Intimate

Practice

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All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can’t see.

Cracks

Dark

Surrender

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Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

Inspirational

Motivational

Suicide

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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.

Earth

Essence

What Matters

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As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt imagine itself loved or at peace. The courage of the seed is that once cracking, it cracks all the way.

Heart

Hurt

Orchids

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At the heart of each spiritual tradition is the question of how to be in the world without losing what matters, and whether living an awakened life is of any use if we don’t bring what matters to bear on the world.

Heart

Spiritual

What Matters

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