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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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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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Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.
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Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred
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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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It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.
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There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.
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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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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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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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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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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
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Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
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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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The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
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Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.
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