Mark Nepo Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.

  Mark Nepo

  Grateful, Hands, Knowing

  "The Book of Awakening". Book by Mark Nepo, abcnews.go.com. 2000.

• My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire, and I find myself in the presence of love. This has always been so.

  Mark Nepo

  Powerful, Believe, Fire

  Mark Nepo (2007). “The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life”, p.27, Harmony

• Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.

  Mark Nepo

  Heaven, Earth, Release

• As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt imagine itself loved or at peace. The courage of the seed is that once cracking, it cracks all the way.

  Mark Nepo

  Hurt, Heart, Orchids

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Apr 05, 2012

• 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 our little want to be big; we come, not knowing that all the work is so much busyness of mind; all the worry, so much busyness of heart. As the sun warms anything near, being warms everything still and the great still things that outlast us make us crack like leaves of laurel releasing a fragrance that has always been.

  Mark Nepo

  Heart, Knowing, Years

• In truth, our aliveness depends on our ability to sustain wonder:
  to lengthen the moments we are truly uncovered, to be still and quiet
  till all the elements of the earth and all the secrets of the oceans
  stir the aspects of life waiting within us.

  Mark Nepo

  Ocean, Waiting, Secret

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.372, Conari Press

• As nature erodes the earth into magnificent forms, life through endless experience opens us further and further to the essence of what matters. Each time I've been opened further, the way I experience life and receive things has changed.

  Mark Nepo

  What Matters, Essence, Earth

• 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 honoring how life comes through us that we get the most out of living, not by keeping ourselves out of the way. The goal is to mix our hands in the earth, not to stay clean.

  Mark Nepo

  Strong, Heart, Hands

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.56, Conari Press

• Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little stream in the earth by which the smallest flowers are watered.

  Mark Nepo

  Rain, Flower, Everyday

  Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

• The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

  Mark Nepo

  Art, Practice, Challenges

  Mark Nepo (2013). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

• Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.

  Mark Nepo

  Soul, Earth

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