185 Quotes by Mark Nepo

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.

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.

We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?

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.

I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.

If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.

Love and grief enable us to feel how we’re all at heart the same. In love and grief, which is always very personal, the distinctions that separate us melt away.

We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.