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 Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive. Mark Nepo wisdom wise heart No amount of thinking can stop thinking. Mark Nepo amount thinking Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air. Mark Nepo mouths air mean The things that can restore us have to get in, too. This is what the wisdom of an open heart is all about. All the spiritual traditions speak of this but I love the Tibetan tradition: "A spiritual warrior always has a crack in his heart because that is how the mysteries can get in." Mark Nepo warrior spiritual heart 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 who-we-are deny faces The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence. Mark Nepo infection violence heart The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again. Mark Nepo freshness can-do In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable. Mark Nepo cutting heart commitment What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same. Mark Nepo different may I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with life and that conversation is restorative and healing and always nearby. Mark Nepo alive healing life-is Who's to say the effort to be real isn't the beginning of wings? Mark Nepo effort real wings For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have to let go of what we want so badly and our life will unfold. For love is everywhere. Mark Nepo letting-go love-is believe There is no getting around the fundamental fact that we need to interact with everything in order to manifest the wholeness we are born with. Mark Nepo order facts needs A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it Mark Nepo creative successful expression One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post. Mark Nepo shine-on glasses heart I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went through, I finally realized I am love. I carry love. Mark Nepo wanted-to-be-loved various language The world needs awakened souls the way a body needs healthy cells. Mark Nepo healthy cells soul Doing small things with love is the atom of bravery. Mark Nepo atoms bravery love-is The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear. Mark Nepo listening way years We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life. Mark Nepo wall facts way
