To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.
Mark NepoPerhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.
Mark NepoThere are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.
Mark Nepo