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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
Live
Need
Enough
Needs
Heart
Loud
Speak

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Joy in what we do is not an added feature it is a sign of deep health.
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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
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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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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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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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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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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 life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.
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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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When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.
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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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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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To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.
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When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.
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