Todd Fuqua

“For only while telling the truth does the truth lighten us. When we stop, it turns massive. I left some of my bags on that corner of Green Street somewhere below the equator. Now I carry less and try to dance on my crutches. For only while loving do the pains of feeling lighten.”
― Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

“Wholeness does not mean perfection; it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life”
― Parker J. Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life : Welcoming the soul and weaving community in a wounded world

“Patience devastates us with the truth that, in essence, when we fear another, we fear ourselves; when we distrust another, we distrust ourselves; when we hurt another, we hurt ourselves; when we kill another, we kill ourselves.”
― Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

“Perhaps one of the hardest remedies to accept for our pain of becoming is that wherever we are in our path—no matter how flawed or incomplete—is a blossoming unto itself.”
― Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have