01UndatedWhen wiggling through a holethe world looks different thanwhen scrubbed clean by the wiggleand looking back.Mark Nepo / quote ↗
03UndatedIt’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.Mark Nepo / quote ↗
04UndatedOnce waking into the realization that eternity is waiting in every moment, I discovered that wealth is time, not money.Mark Nepo / quote ↗
06UndatedThere, 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.Mark Nepo / quote ↗
07UndatedThe reward for being sensitive is that we’re held by the Universe, the way the ocean in its buoyancy holds up a raft.Mark Nepo / quote ↗
08UndatedTo walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.Mark Nepo / quote ↗
09UndatedWe 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 being direct, we unknowingly slip something on, some added layer of protection that keeps us from feeling the world, and often that thin covering is the beginning of a loneliness which, if not put down, diminishes our chances of joy. 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. Our challenge each day is not to get dressed to face the world but to unglove ourselves so that the doorknob feels cold and the car handle feels wet and the kiss goodbye feels like the lips of another being, soft and unrepeatable.Mark Nepo / quote ↗
10Undated…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)Mark Nepo / quote ↗
