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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
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If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.
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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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When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.
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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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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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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
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Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.
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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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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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Joy in what we do is not an added feature it is a sign of deep health.
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In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.
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What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.
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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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Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.
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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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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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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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A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it
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