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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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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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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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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
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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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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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