No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
At the heart of each spiritual tradition is the question of how to be in the world without losing what matters, and… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
In the same way that we have to clean wax from our ears and dirt from our eyes, we're all asked to… — 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
In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Love and grief enable us to feel how we're all at heart the same. In love and grief, which is always very… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
For being human, we remember and forget. We stray and return, fall down and get up, and cling and let go, again… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the… — 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
Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The things that can restore us have to get in, too. This is what the wisdom of an open heart is all… — 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
One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I would want to affirm how rare and magnificent and messy it is to be alive, how there is really nothing between… — 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
