185 Quotes by Mark Nepo

It’s like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real.

Can we listen to each other the way veins listen to blood?

Once waking into the realization that eternity is waiting in every moment, I discovered that wealth is time, not money.

It makes me wonder now, in middle age, if being spontaneous and kind and curious are all parts of our natural ability to swim.

The heart doesn't know it's expanding with compassion anymore than a hawk spreading its swings knows it's being a hawk. Nor does someone acting out of love often realize they are being kind.

For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have to let go of what we want so badly and our life will unfold. For love is everywhere.

These bodies are perishable, but the Dweller in these bodies is eternal. – BHAGAVAD-GITA.

We are so unused to emotion that we mistake any depth of feeling for sadness, any sense of the unknown for fear, and any sense of peace for boredom.

To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.