Mark Nepo Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mark Nepo
Mark Nepo Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the years.
The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.
I laugh when I think of how many hours I have spent in my life weaving storylines that never came true until, like weeds, they covered my heart.
Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.
In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.
The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.
Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.
When we need it most, it is nearly impossible to see ourselves with compassion from the slit of a narrowed mind all tensed for battle.
... I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky. (p.275)
Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.
The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly.
This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.
Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.
It's like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real.
If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.
In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of bones. - PABLO NERUDA
If you had a sad childhood, so what? You can dance with only one leg and see the snowflake falling with only one eye. - ROBERT BLY
The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem.
Robert calmly, like an Oriental sage himself, treated the situation as if it were a koan, a riddle to be entered until its very assumptions shifted.
We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.
A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it
The humanitarian Carol Hegedus reminds us, Our purpose is that which we most passionately are when we pay attention to our deepest selves.
The only response to adversity or misunderstanding is to be more completely who we are - to share ourselves more.
The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are ...
The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.
We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.
Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a part of who we are.
When feeling badly about ourselves, we often try on other skins rather than understand and care for our own.
There is no getting around the fundamental fact that we need to interact with everything in order to manifest the wholeness we are born with.
We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.
Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.
When wiggling through a hole
the world looks different than
when scrubbed clean by the wiggle
and looking back.
the world looks different than
when scrubbed clean by the wiggle
and looking back.
I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.
I am more than I have shown you and more than you are willing to see. Let's work our love and know each other more fully.
quiet pain that comes from not honoring what we know to be true, even if all we know to be true are the questions we are asking.
The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.
being articulate is not a facility of language but a fidelity to vision. And so we are all articulate when finding the courage to say what we see.
The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious.