Quote

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Mark Nepo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Looking
Water
Learn
Birds
Keep
Fish
Find
Fishes
Sky
Bird
Teacher

More quotes by Mark Nepo

Image
If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
Mark Nepo
Image
The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.
Mark Nepo
Image
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
Image
Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
Mark Nepo
Image
The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
Mark Nepo
Image
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.
Mark Nepo
Image
We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.
Mark Nepo
Image
To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.
Mark Nepo
Image
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.
Mark Nepo
Image
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
Image
When the sweet ache of being alive, lodged between who you are and who you will be, is awakened, befriend this moment. It will guide you. Its sweetness is what holds you. Its ache is what moves you on.
Mark Nepo
Image
To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
Mark Nepo
Image
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 be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life.
Mark Nepo
Image
Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred
Mark Nepo
Image
A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it
Mark Nepo
Image
The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
Mark Nepo
Image
Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
Mark Nepo
Image
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
Image
If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
Mark Nepo
Image
Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.
Mark Nepo