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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
Mark Nepo
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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.
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We need to meet, embrace and work with what we're given. For what we want and what we're given often serve two different gods. And how we respond to their meeting determines our path.
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It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.
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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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When the sweet ache of being alive, lodged between who you are and who you will be, is awakened, befriend this moment. It will guide you. Its sweetness is what holds you. Its ache is what moves you on.
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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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Joy in what we do is not an added feature it is a sign of deep health.
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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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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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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
Mark Nepo
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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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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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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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
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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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The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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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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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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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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