Latest Mark Nepo Quotes from Interviews

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• The world needs awakened souls the way a body needs healthy cells.

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  Cells, Healthy, Soul

• Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

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  Waiting, Carrie, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Jan 30, 2015

• At the heart of each spiritual tradition is the question of how to be in the world without losing what matters, and whether living an awakened life is of any use if we don't bring what matters to bear on the world.

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  Spiritual, Heart, What Matters

• Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.

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  Fighting, Trying, Energy

• I would want to affirm how rare and magnificent and messy it is to be alive, how there is really nothing between us and life, though so many things get in the way, and how our heart is the strongest muscle and resource we have.

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  Heart, Alive, Want

• The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it.

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  Mark Nepo (2015). “The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

• Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.

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  Soul, Earth

• We need experience to release what matters.

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  What Matters, Needs, Matter

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

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  Art, Practice, Challenges

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

• Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.

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  Tea, Listening, Way

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

• 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.

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  Rain, Flower, Everyday

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

• Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

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  Meditation, Tradition, Form

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

• Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.

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  Compassion, People, Inner Peace

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

• Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the years.

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  Dream, Commitment, Years

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

• In the same way that we have to clean wax from our ears and dirt from our eyes, we're all asked to clean out our conclusions and judgments, which block our heart from meeting the world.

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  Block, Heart, Eye

• In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable.

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  Heart, Commitment, Cutting

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

• I had over twenty years ago damaged the cilia in my ears. This has taught me many things. One thing I learned, paradoxically, is that there is much to be heard in silence.

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  Years, Silence, Twenties

• Everything in life opens and closes, sheds and renews. We are no different. Listening in its endless forms is the way we stay open, the way we stay in relationship, the way we refresh who we are and what we're doing here.

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  Listening, Different, Who We Are

• When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy; as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.

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  Humility, Soul, Listening

• To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.

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  Mean, Challenges, Our Time

• 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.

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  What Matters, Essence, Earth

• By our very nature, we are a human paradox. We are a human being. The being is infinite and the human is very finite. We walk around like lightening in a bottle.

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  Bottles, Infinite, Paradox

• We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.

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  Choices, Everyday, Limits

• The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.

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  Life Is, Resources, Smallest

• The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.

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  Giving, Needs, Mystery

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Feb 10, 2017