185 Quotes by 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.

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.

When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

The humility of wonder opens everything.

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.

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.

When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.

In this world, hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. – BUDDHA.

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.