Mark Nepo Quotes - Page 4

Quotes about:

• 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 of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of thingsstop being a glass. Become a lake.

  Mark Nepo

  Pain, Lakes, Glasses

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.18, Conari Press

  6 Copy quote

• Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.

  Mark Nepo

  Important

  13 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.

  Mark Nepo

  Practice, Intimate, Accepting

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from May 06, 2015

  11 Copy quote

• 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.

  Mark Nepo

  Fighting, Trying, Energy

  9 Copy quote

• Doing small things with love is the atom of bravery.

  Mark Nepo

  Love Is, Bravery, Atoms

  Mark Nepo (2015). “The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

• What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.

  Mark Nepo

  Exes

  "Inside the Miracle". Interview with Margaret Cahill, www.watkinsmagazine.com. April 5, 2016.

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  16 Copy quote

• Let the miracles, even the ones we don't want or see, unfold.

  Mark Nepo

  Miracle, Want

  Mark Nepo (2013). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

  11 Copy quote

• Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.

  Mark Nepo

  Truth Is, Seeds

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Mar 17, 2015

  8 Copy quote

• Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

  Mark Nepo

  Clouds, Light, Sun

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.9, Conari Press

  92 Copy quote

• 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 opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.

  Mark Nepo

  Years, Listening, Way

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

  4 Copy quote

• A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

  Mark Nepo

  Successful, Expression, Creative

  7 Copy quote

• The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.

  Mark Nepo

  Expression, Tuning, Sacred

  Mark Nepo (2015). “The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

  15 Copy quote

• 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 the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.

  Mark Nepo

  Wise, Wisdom, Heart

  Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

• To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.

  Mark Nepo

  Broken, Reason, All Things

  Mark Nepo (2014). “The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

  10 Copy quote

• Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.

  Mark Nepo

  Heart, Needs, Speak

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.111, Conari Press

  9 Copy quote

• To love by admitting our connection to everything is how we stay well.

  Mark Nepo

  Connections, Admitting, Wells

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.25, Conari Press

  4 Copy quote

• If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.

  Mark Nepo

  Soulmate, Listening, Sun

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.101, Conari Press

  11 Copy quote

• 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 someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how surrender can hold us up.

  Mark Nepo

  Hurt, Pain, Struggle

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.87, Conari Press

  5 Copy quote

• there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others.

  Mark Nepo

  Song, Play, Choices

  8 Copy quote

• I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with life and that conversation is restorative and healing and always nearby.

  Mark Nepo

  Healing, Alive, Life Is

  6 Copy quote

• Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.

  Mark Nepo

  Knowing, Bird, Flight

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Mar 23, 2012

  6 Copy quote

• The things that can restore us have to get in, too. This is what the wisdom of an open heart is all about. All the spiritual traditions speak of this but I love the Tibetan tradition: "A spiritual warrior always has a crack in his heart because that is how the mysteries can get in."

  Mark Nepo

  Spiritual, Heart, Warrior

  4 Copy quote

• 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 special ways, only to find everyone is special. Humbly, we can't avoid this journey.

  Mark Nepo

  Journey, Land, Special

  6 Copy quote

Page 4 of 7

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin