All Mark Nepo Quotes
- 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. ร 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
- The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break. Any
- My friends are the beings through whom God loves me. Beings
- We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like… Accept
- Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush… Aliveness
- Who's to say the effort to be real isn't the beginning of wings? Beginning
- Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us. Always Wind
- For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough,… Break
- Have the #รขโฌลฝ life you want by being fully present to the life you have. Fully
- Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak. Heart
- We travel so far only to land where we are. We imagine other lives, only to meet who we are. We seek out love in… Avoid
- Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light. Bird
- To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear. Changed
- We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are. Born
- The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and… Accepting
- Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us. Beauty