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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
Gift
Head
Human
Humans
Every
Unfathomable
Life
Reveal
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Meetings

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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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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.
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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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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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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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To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.
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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.
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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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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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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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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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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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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 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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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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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
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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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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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