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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
Head
Human
Humans
Unfathomable
Every
Reveal
Life
Meeting
Meetings
Gift

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As nature erodes the earth into magnificent forms, life through endless experience opens us further and further to the essence of what matters. Each time I've been opened further, the way I experience life and receive things has changed.
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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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The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.
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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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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.
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I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.
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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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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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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.
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In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.
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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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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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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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