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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

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Sacred
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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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When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.
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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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Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.
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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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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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The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.
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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.
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Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.
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…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)
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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
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