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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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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.
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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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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
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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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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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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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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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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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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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Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.
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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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Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.
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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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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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To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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