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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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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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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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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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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life.
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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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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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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 glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.
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The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly.
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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.
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We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.
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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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When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.
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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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