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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
Hear
Grows
Feel
Feels
Direction
Like
Dare
Sun
Listening
Grow

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When the sweet ache of being alive, lodged between who you are and who you will be, is awakened, befriend this moment. It will guide you. Its sweetness is what holds you. Its ache is what moves you on.
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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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If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.
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We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.
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For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.
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There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.
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I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.
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My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire, and I find myself in the presence of love. This has always been so.
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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly.
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I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.
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All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
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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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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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Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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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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I would want to affirm how rare and magnificent and messy it is to be alive, how there is really nothing between us and life, though so many things get in the way, and how our heart is the strongest muscle and resource we have.
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