Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
In truth, our aliveness depends on our ability to sustain wonder: to lengthen the moments we are truly uncovered, to be still… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
As nature erodes the earth into magnificent forms, life through endless experience opens us further and further to the essence of what… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening.… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Often we find it easier to think our way around things rather than to feel our way through them:” — Mark Nepo Copy Share
When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want… — Mark Nepo Copy Share
“a living symbol that can call into my moment of sadness a deeper sense of plenitude and generosity that is always there, but not… — Mark Nepo Copy Share
“COMING OUT While there is much to do we are not here to do. Under the want to problem-solve is the need to… — Mark Nepo Copy Share
The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again. — Mark Nepo Copy Share
For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have to let… — Mark Nepo Copy Share
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. — Mark Nepo Copy Share
A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it — Mark Nepo Copy Share
“Yet beneath all the talk of tragedy and grace, I have come to believe that we are destined to be opened by the living… — Mark Nepo Copy Share
The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break. — Mark Nepo Copy Share
We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction… — Mark Nepo Copy Share
