Mark Nepo Quotes

We tend to make the thing in the way the way.

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.

The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it.

I had over twenty years ago damaged the cilia in my ears. This has taught me many things. One thing I learned, paradoxically, is that there is much to be heard in silence.

Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.

The humility of wonder opens everything.

My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire, and I find myself in the presence of love. This has always been so.

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.

What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same.

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.