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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 life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.
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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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The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.
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Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.
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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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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.
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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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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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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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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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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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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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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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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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In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.
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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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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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I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.
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