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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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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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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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We need to meet, embrace and work with what we're given. For what we want and what we're given often serve two different gods. And how we respond to their meeting determines our path.
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Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.
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We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.
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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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To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.
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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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We need experience to release what matters.
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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 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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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
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If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.
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I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.
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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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