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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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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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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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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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The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.
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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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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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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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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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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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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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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
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The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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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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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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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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