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Joy in what we do is not an added feature it is a sign of deep health.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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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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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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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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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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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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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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