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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.
Mark Nepo
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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
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Brooklyn
New York
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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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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 the sweet ache of being alive, lodged between who you are and who you will be, is awakened, befriend this moment. It will guide you. Its sweetness is what holds you. Its ache is what moves you on.
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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.
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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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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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Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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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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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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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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We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.
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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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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.
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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 extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life.
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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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