Neda Hanson

“I collect people. I come by this honestly. In the same way that others collect rocks or stamps or coins, my own father collected people.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“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, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

“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, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

“Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.”
― Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have