Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Everything in life opens and closes, sheds and renews. We are no different. Listening in its endless forms is the way we… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction. — 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
Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both… — 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
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
Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us,… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us,… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us. — 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
In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
