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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 key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.
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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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In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.
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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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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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The pain of life is pure salt no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of thingsstop being a glass. Become a lake.
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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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