Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Find
Doorways
Trying
Denying
Much
Resist
Time
Waste
Fighting
Energy
Given
Truth
Doorway

More quotes by Mark Nepo

Image
No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
Mark Nepo
Image
Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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
In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.
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
If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
Mark Nepo
Image
Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
Mark Nepo
Image
All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
Mark Nepo
Image
I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.
Mark Nepo
Image
Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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
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
…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
Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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
Image
Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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
When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.
Mark Nepo
Image
Joy in what we do is not an added feature it is a sign of deep health.
Mark Nepo
Image
Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
Mark Nepo