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Way Quotes by Mark Nepo
- 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…
- 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…
- We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
- 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…
- We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.
- 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…
- The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.
- 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…
- 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…
- Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.
- 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…
- The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.
- This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.
- Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the quietest sort of…
- In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way…
- Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.
- Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually…
- We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may…
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