Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the years. Mark Nepo More Quotes by Mark Nepo More Quotes From Mark Nepo Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal. Mark Nepo unfathomable meetings humans Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind. Mark Nepo repetition wave wind Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us. Mark Nepo roots wind moving 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 fighting energy trying The broken door lets in the light. The broken heart lets in the world. Mark Nepo light heart doors there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others. Mark Nepo choices play song We need to meet, embrace and work with what we're given. For what we want and what we're given often serve two different gods. And how we respond to their meeting determines our path. Mark Nepo different two needs When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it. Mark Nepo sorting energy Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health. Mark Nepo features joy Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them. Mark Nepo flight knowing bird The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred. Mark Nepo sacred tuning expression If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising. Mark Nepo matter beautiful hands What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed. Mark Nepo exes Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak. Mark Nepo speak heart needs We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given. Mark Nepo accepting practice needs If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction. Mark Nepo soulmate listening sun No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts. Mark Nepo heart wings bird The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Mark Nepo skins waiting ordinary 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 land journey special In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life. Mark Nepo preference listening way
