Quote

Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.

Mark Nepo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Every
Unfathomable
Life
Reveal
Meeting
Meetings
Gift
Head
Human
Humans

More quotes by Mark Nepo

Image
It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.
Mark Nepo
Image
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.
Mark Nepo
Image
We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.
Mark Nepo
Image
…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
Image
We need experience to release what matters.
Mark Nepo
Image
Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
Mark Nepo
Image
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
Image
If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
Mark Nepo
Image
We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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
The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
Mark Nepo
Image
If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.
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
When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
Mark Nepo
Image
When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.
Mark Nepo
Image
The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.
Mark Nepo
Image
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
Image
Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
Mark Nepo
Image
When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.
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