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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Motivational
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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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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
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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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The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.
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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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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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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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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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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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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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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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