Mark Nepo Short Quotes

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Let the miracles, even the ones we don't want or see, unfold.

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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.

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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.

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Who's to say the effort to be real isn't the beginning of wings?

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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.

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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.

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The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

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We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.

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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.

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To love by admitting our connection to everything is how we stay well.

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The broken door lets in the light. The broken heart lets in the world.

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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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What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same.

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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.

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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are

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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.

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

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In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.

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We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

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The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.

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Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

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

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This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.

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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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The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

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The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious.

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I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.

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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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