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We think it all depends on us.

What if the enchanted part of the fork in the road breathes warmly on your neck because it needs the grounding of your steps?

Nov 4

We think it all depends on us.

Nov 4

After the Bomb

After the bomb went off, after parts of the building fell about her, once everything was still, she lifted her broken body from the rubble…

Oct 28

After the Bomb

Oct 28

Remnant

I found my grandmother’s steamship ticket to this country from 1904 in the back of her dresser. And when my father died, there was a heavy…

Oct 21

Remnant

Oct 21

The Party of Your Life

Always invite Death to your table but never let him choose the meal.

Oct 14

The Party of Your Life

Oct 14

The Secret of Repair

It can’t be helped. Patterns cover the mind, like moss that blankets the floor of the forest.

Oct 7

The Secret of Repair

Oct 7

As the Day Begins

When you slowly lift your cup, feel the weight of all you’ve gathered from your time on Earth, bring it to your lip and feel the milk you…

Sep 30

As the Day Begins

Sep 30

This Belongs to Everyone

Yearning to be, we enter a lifelong process. We follow a thread of connection that reveals itself as a necessary art of being. The…

Sep 23

This Belongs to Everyone

Sep 23

Open the Riddle

No matter what anyone tells you, opinions are shields and questions are windows.

Sep 16

Open the Riddle

Sep 16

A Poet’s Vow

Like a photographer of the invisible, I have spent my life trying to develop images in the dark room of my heart.

Sep 9

A Poet’s Vow

Sep 9

Without Effort

Remember when we sat in your study by the window, wondering why life is so hard. And just then, the sun, without effort, rushed its way…

Sep 2

Without Effort

Sep 2

Mark Nepo

Mark Nepo

New York Times #1 bestselling author of The Book of Awakening, poet, spiritual teacher and philosopher. Learn more @MarkNepo.com or live.marknepo.com

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