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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
Meeting
Meetings
Gift
Head
Human
Humans
Every
Unfathomable
Life
Reveal

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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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Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.
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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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The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
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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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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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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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The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.
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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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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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To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.
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I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.
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Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.
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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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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.
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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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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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I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.
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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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