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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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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Tasted
Gathered
Greedy
Simple
Cherries

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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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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
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When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.
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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.
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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 extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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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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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.
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