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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Loud
Speak
Live
Need
Enough
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Heart

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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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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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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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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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When the sweet ache of being alive, lodged between who you are and who you will be, is awakened, befriend this moment. It will guide you. Its sweetness is what holds you. Its ache is what moves you on.
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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.
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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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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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A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it
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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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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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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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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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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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We need experience to release what matters.
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The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.
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