All Mark Nepo Quotes
- Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need. Anyone
- To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing… All
- Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to… Authentically
- Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a… Ache
- Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens… Alive
- Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us,… All
- We are broken open, or we willfully shed. Broken
- Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal. Every Human
- The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the… Amount
- To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and be transformed by… Chameleon
- Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health. Added
- We tend to make the thing in the way the way. Funny
- I would rather be fooled than not believe. Believe
- The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one. All
- To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken. All
- It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And it is by… Authentic
- It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold… Always Amazed
- Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results. Alive
- No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts. Bird
- Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind. Ask
- We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters. Close
- We can never be prepared for everything. Â No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall… All
- No amount of thinking can stop thinking. Amount
- But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to give up the… Allow
- For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have to let go… Badly