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1. "The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are." ~ Mark Nepo
2. "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." ~ Mark Nepo
3. "If I dare to hear youI will feel you like the sunAnd grow in your direction." ~ Mark Nepo
4. "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" ~ Mark Nepo
5. "Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are" ~ Mark Nepo
6. "Let's be in awewhich doesn't meananything but the courageto gape like fish at the surfacebreaking around our mouthsas we meet the air." ~ Mark Nepo
7. "there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others." ~ Mark Nepo
8. "Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond." ~ Mark Nepo
9. "When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it." ~ Mark Nepo
10. "In a world that lives like a fistmercy is not more than waking with your hands open." ~ Mark Nepo
11. "Even if one glimpses God,there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way." ~ Mark Nepo
12. "Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens." ~ Mark Nepo
13. "When wiggling through a holethe world looks different thanwhen scrubbed clean by the wiggleand looking back." ~ Mark Nepo
14. "To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not." ~ Mark Nepo
15. "The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased." ~ Mark Nepo
16. "We are broken open, or we willfully shed." ~ Mark Nepo
17. "It seems that intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us." ~ Mark Nepo
18. "quiet pain that comes from not honoring what we know to be true, even if all we know to be true are the questions we are asking." ~ Mark Nepo
19. "we think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will." ~ Mark Nepo
20. "The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break." ~ Mark Nepo
21. "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
22. "Whether through the patterns left in snow, or geese honking in the dark, or through the brilliant wet leaf that hits your face the moment you are questioning your worth, the quiet teachers are everywhere, pointing us to the unlived portion of our lives. When we think we are in charge, the lessons dissolve as accidents or coincidence. But when we're humble enough to welcome the connections, the glass that breaks across the room is offering us direction, giving us a clue to the story we are in." ~ Mark Nepo
23. "As Martin Luther King Jr. prophesied, "I believe what the self-centered have torn down, the other-centered will build up." ~ Mark Nepo
24. "we may spend much of our time unaware and unenlightened, yet the presence of Truth and God, like a deep and ancient friend, can shape our entire lives. So the inner task becomes how do we make a lasting friendship with the Unities that are larger than us? How do we keep their light in our heart when no stars appear in sight?" ~ Mark Nepo
25. "feelings and times long gone come and live again, or basic truths hard to keep in view return." ~ Mark Nepo
26. "a living symbol that can call into my moment of sadness a deeper sense of plenitude and generosity that is always there, but not always accessible." ~ Mark Nepo
27. "Robert calmly, like an Oriental sage himself, treated the situation as if it were a koan, a riddle to be entered until its very assumptions shifted." ~ Mark Nepo
28. "we can go below our hardened ways to the soft impulses that birth them. Instead of breaking the bone of our stubbornness, we can nourish the marrow of our feeling unheard. Instead of breaking the bone of our fear, we can cleanse the blood of our feeling unsafe. Instead of counting the scars from being hurt in the world, we can find and re-kiss the very spot in our soul where we began to withhold our trust." ~ Mark Nepo
29. "We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how surrender can hold us up." ~ Mark Nepo

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