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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Meetings
Gift
Head
Human
Humans
Every
Unfathomable
Life
Reveal
Meeting

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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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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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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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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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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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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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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living 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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Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.
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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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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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…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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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.
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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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