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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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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
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Brooklyn
New York
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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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Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
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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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The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.
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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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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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In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.
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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.
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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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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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Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.
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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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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
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