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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Feels
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Like
Dare
Sun
Listening
Grow
Hear
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The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.
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Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.
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The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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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.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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We travel so far only to land where we are. We imagine other lives, only to meet who we are. We seek out love in special ways, only to find everyone is special. Humbly, we can't avoid this journey.
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The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.
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In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.
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Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.
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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.
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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.
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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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