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Mark Nepo , is a poet and spiritual adviser 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.

Nepo has a doctorate in English. He taught for 18 years at the State University of New York in Albany, New York. He then moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan. In his 30s he was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma, a struggle which helped to form his philosophy of experiencing life fully while staying in relationship to an unknowable future.

In 2010 Oprah Winfrey chose Nepo's Book of Awakening as one of her Ultimate Favorite Things for her farewell season, launching it to the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list. Nepo has appeared several times with Oprah Winfrey on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV, and was named to Oprah's SuperSoul100 list of visionaries and influential leaders. He was also interviewed by Robin Roberts on Good Morning America. Oprah has also written about Nepo twice in her O! magazine column, "What I Know for Sure" . His recent book, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen won the Books for A Better Life Award. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. February 1951
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Famous Mark Nepo Quotes

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

Mark Nepo

“Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are”

Mark Nepo

Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

“…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

Source: Facing the Lion, Being the Lion: Finding Inner Courage Where It Lives

“…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.”

Mark Nepo

Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

Mark Nepo Quotes

“The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.”

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

Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

“Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred”

Mark Nepo

“Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.”

Mark Nepo

Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

“Let's be in awe
which doesn't mean
anything but the courage
to gape like fish at the surface
breaking around our mouths
as we meet the air.”

Mark Nepo

“We are broken open, or we willfully shed.”

Mark Nepo

Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

“Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.”

Mark Nepo

Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

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