When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it. Mark Nepo More Quotes by Mark Nepo More Quotes From Mark Nepo Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace. Mark Nepo spots born grace Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth. Mark Nepo release earth heaven …there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths. Mark Nepo pathways everything-happens-for-a-reason unexpected To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not. Mark Nepo miracle speak writing The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble. Mark Nepo mystery giving needs Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature. Mark Nepo being-human blessing challenges 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 space mind heart Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little stream in the earth by which the smallest flowers are watered. Mark Nepo everyday flower rain 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 humility soul listening 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 intimate accepting practice Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light. Mark Nepo light heart song Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it. Mark Nepo mystery jobs The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of thingsstop being a glass. Become a lake. Mark Nepo glasses pain lakes The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes. Mark Nepo success positive life Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they've shied away. Mark Nepo effort soul heart In life as in water, when we curl up or flail we sink. When we spread and go still, we are carried by the largest sea of all: the sea of grace that flows steadily beneath the turmoil of events. And just as fish can't see the ocean they live in, we can't quite see the spirit that sustains us. Mark Nepo ocean sea water Pursue the obstacle Mark Nepo pursue obstacles Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us. Mark Nepo stills listening mind Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens. Mark Nepo important Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up. Mark Nepo worry life fall
