Mark Nepo Quotes - Page 6

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• One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.

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  Heart, Shine On, Glasses

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• A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.

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  Pain, Forget

  Mark Nepo (2015). “The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• We're quietly aching for something to celebrate

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  Celebrate

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• If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.

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  Mountain, Stones, Feels

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.89, Conari Press

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• 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

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• 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

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• I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.

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  Thinking, Keys, Joy

  "Journey to the Sacred: An Interview With Mark Nepo". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.

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  Wiggling, Different, Looks

  Mark Nepo (2013). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.

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  Meaningful, Writing, Way

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• The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.

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  Freshness, Can Do

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• What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same.

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  Different, May

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.6, Conari Press

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• Who's to say the effort to be real isn't the beginning of wings?

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  Real, Wings, Effort

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.71, Conari Press

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• I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went through, I finally realized I am love. I carry love.

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  Language, Wanted To Be Loved, Various

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• 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

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• In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.

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  Stars, Animal, Reality

  Mark Nepo (2013). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem.

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  Writing, Want

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• The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly.

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  Journey, What Matters, Accepting

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Jul 15, 2015

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• I would rather be fooled than not believe.

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  Believe, Fooled

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.20, Conari Press

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• The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.

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  Shapes, Way, Heat

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.60, Conari Press

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• If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.

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  Heart, World, Common

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Aug 03, 2015

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

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  Love Is, Bravery, Atoms

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

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