Mark Nepo - Feel Quotes

7 Sourced Quotes

View all Mark Nepo Quotes
If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.

Mark Nepo
Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.

Mark Nepo
But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to give up the truth of what we feel or the truth of our reality. Nor does it allow us to minimize the humanity of those who hurt us. Rather, we are asked to know ourselves enough that we can stay open to the truth of others, even when their truth or their inability to live up to their truth has hurt us.

Mark Nepo
If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.

Mark Nepo
I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.

Mark Nepo
What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands?... Tomorrow you could die... but today you are precious and rare and awake... Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.

Mark Nepo
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.

Mark Nepo