Life Quotes by Mark Nepo

“life is always where we are.”

— Mark Nepo

The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it.

— Mark Nepo

The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.

— Mark Nepo

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

— Mark Nepo

When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

— Mark Nepo

The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.

— Mark Nepo

The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open…

— Mark Nepo

Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.

— Mark Nepo

In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.

— Mark Nepo

We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way…

— Mark Nepo

Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature…

— Mark Nepo

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched…

— Mark Nepo

I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with…

— Mark Nepo

If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing…

— Mark Nepo

At the heart of each spiritual tradition is the question of how to be in the world without losing what matters, and…

— Mark Nepo

The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through…

— Mark Nepo

In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands…

— Mark Nepo

The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the…

— Mark Nepo

“The truth is that life will break us and burn us at some point on the journey. This is not pessimistic or…

— Mark Nepo

In truth, our aliveness depends on our ability to sustain wonder: to lengthen the moments we are truly uncovered, to be still…

— Mark Nepo

In life as in water, when we curl up or flail we sink. When we spread and go still, we are carried…

— Mark Nepo

It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And…

— Mark Nepo

What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How…

— Mark Nepo

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath…

— Mark Nepo

It is imperative that we find that vital element that brings us alive... the true vitality that waits beneath all occupations for…

— Mark Nepo

“Just as life is made up of day and night, and song is made up of music and silence, friendships, because they…

— Mark Nepo

Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.

— Mark Nepo

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that…

— Mark Nepo

Have the # life you want by being fully present to the life you have.

— Mark Nepo

We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

— Mark Nepo

If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.

— Mark Nepo

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

— Mark Nepo

I would want to affirm how rare and magnificent and messy it is to be alive, how there is really nothing between…

— Mark Nepo

To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever…

— Mark Nepo

Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little…

— Mark Nepo

In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's…

— Mark Nepo

For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have…

— Mark Nepo

“It makes me wonder now, in middle age, if being spontaneous and kind and curious are all parts of our natural ability…

— Mark Nepo

“a living symbol that can call into my moment of sadness a deeper sense of plenitude and generosity that is always there,…

— Mark Nepo

“And where is home? Is it where we begin or where we end up? Is it where we long to be or…

— Mark Nepo