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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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Thinking

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We need experience to release what matters.
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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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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 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 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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The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
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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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For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.
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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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