The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way… — 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… — 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
Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious. — 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
I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way… — 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
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
Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience,… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
We travel so far only to land where we are. We imagine other lives, only to meet who we are. We seek… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out… — 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
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
Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though… — 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
This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters. — 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
Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way. — 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
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
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
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
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
There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken… — 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
