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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 paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.
Mark Nepo
I would want to affirm how rare and magnificent and messy it is to be alive, how there is really nothing between us and life, though so many things get in the way, and how our heart is the strongest muscle and resource we have.
Mark Nepo
I would rather be fooled than not believe.
Mark Nepo
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.
Mark Nepo
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.
Mark Nepo
When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
Mark Nepo
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.
Mark Nepo
Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
Mark Nepo
Walk long enough and we all trade places.
Mark Nepo
Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.
Mark Nepo
The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.
Mark Nepo
We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
Mark Nepo
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.
Mark Nepo
If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
Mark Nepo
Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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.
Mark Nepo
The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
Mark Nepo
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.
Mark Nepo
Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
Mark Nepo
Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
Mark Nepo