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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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Brooklyn
New York
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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.
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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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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 greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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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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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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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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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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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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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 pain of life is pure salt no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of thingsstop being a glass. Become a lake.
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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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