185 Quotes by Mark Nepo

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

The reward for being sensitive is that we’re held by the Universe, the way the ocean in its buoyancy holds up a raft.

I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world. For as the body is only as healthy as its individual cells, the world is only as healthy as its individual souls.

When wiggling through a holethe world looks different thanwhen scrubbed clean by the wiggleand looking back.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

There, in the silence that's never quite silent, I realized that, if there are at least seven thousand wants to speak, there are at least seven thousand ways to listen.

We’re drawn to live in the world until the fire within meets the fire without. We’re drawn to move through all the invisible barriers to find what we love, to love what we love, and to save what we love.The inevitable journey of being spirit on Earth is to love things dearly enough that in time we become a nameless part of what we love. Until we’re left with the noble effort to voice and affirm what we touch and know when closest to life, for as long as we can.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.