Quote

We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.

Mark Nepo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Asks
Practice
Learn
Given
Need
Needs
Continually
Asked
Accepting

More quotes by Mark Nepo

Image
Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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
Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
Mark Nepo
Image
Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
Mark Nepo
Image
The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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
We need experience to release what matters.
Mark Nepo
Image
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.
Mark Nepo
Image
We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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
The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.
Mark Nepo
Image
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.
Mark Nepo
Image
Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.
Mark Nepo
Image
I would rather be fooled than not believe.
Mark Nepo
Image
Joy in what we do is not an added feature it is a sign of deep health.
Mark Nepo
Image
The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.
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
Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.
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
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