Quote

Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.

Mark Nepo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Expose
Participate
Mystery
Jobs

More quotes by Mark Nepo

Image
Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
Mark Nepo
Image
The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
Mark Nepo
Image
We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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
The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.
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
Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.
Mark Nepo
Image
Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
Mark Nepo
Image
What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
Mark Nepo
Image
The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.
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
Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.
Mark Nepo
Image
When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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
Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
Mark Nepo
Image
The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
Mark Nepo
Image
What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.
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
If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
Mark Nepo