“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.” Life IsFoundHealingAliveConversation Author:Mark Nepo
“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.” WayFeelsHeartEnoughChallengesSunBrokenShiningGlassesSnowPostsRelaxSlow DownLampsReflectingCrowAlleysShine OnBroken Glass Author:Mark Nepo
“The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.” Life IsResourcesSmallest Author:Mark Nepo
“The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.” NeedsGivingShowsTroubleMysteryDare Author:Mark Nepo
“By our very nature, we are a human paradox. We are a human being. The being is infinite and the human is very finite. We walk around like lightening in a bottle.” HumansHuman BeingsWalksInfiniteParadoxBottlesFinite Author:Mark Nepo
“We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.” ChoicesLimitsEverydaySettingSettingsLove Everyone Author:Mark Nepo
“As nature erodes the earth into magnificent forms, life through endless experience opens us further and further to the essence of what matters. Each time I've been opened further, the way I experience life and receive things has changed.” WayMatterEarthFormChangedEssenceEndlessMagnificentWhat MattersThings Have ChangedErode Author:Mark Nepo
“To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.” MeanChallengesOur Time Author:Mark Nepo
“Everything in life opens and closes, sheds and renews. We are no different. Listening in its endless forms is the way we stay open, the way we stay in relationship, the way we refresh who we are and what we're doing here.” WayDifferentFormListeningEndlessWho We AreShed Author:Mark Nepo
“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.” FeelsSoulUniverseEnergyHumilityListeningNoiseRenewal Author:Mark Nepo