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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
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Heart
Loud
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Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.
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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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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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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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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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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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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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The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.
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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.
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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.
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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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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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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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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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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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As nature erodes the earth into magnificent forms, life through endless experience opens us further and further to the essence of what matters. Each time I've been opened further, the way I experience life and receive things has changed.
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