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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
Truly
Motivational
Asks
Inspirational
Never
Love
Knowingly
Suicide

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Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.
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We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.
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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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We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.
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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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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
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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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We need experience to release what matters.
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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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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire, and I find myself in the presence of love. This has always been so.
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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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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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In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.
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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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All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
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