the real journey begins

When we can free up our sense of needing to arrive in a certain place, we lessen the weight of being lost. And once beneath arriving and beneath our fear of failing to arrive, the real journey begins. - Mark Nepo I love this one!

True kindness

How easy it is to be cruel when afraid, and how difficult it is to accept that we are all capable of terrible things, and how cleansing it is to realize that true kindness breathes just beneath this acceptance. - Mark Nepo

the nearest patch of life

When confusion or pain seems to tighten what is possible, when sadness or frustration shrinks your sense of well-being, when worry or fear agitates the peace right out of you, try lending your attention to the nearest thing. . . . Give your full attention over to the nearest patch of life--to how an apple peels and juices--and after a while each thing attended will reveal yet another way back to the center. -
Mark Nepo