Quotes by Mark Nepo

About Mark Nepo:

Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over 30 years. Nepo is best known for his New York Times #1 bestseller, The Book of Awakening. He has published 12 books and recorded six audio projects. A cancer survivor, Nepo writes and teaches about the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship.
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…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

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We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that there will not be enough time. When we hesitate in b...

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I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.

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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.

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

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

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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.

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When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.

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Author Bio

  • NameMark Nepo
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornFebruary 23, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America