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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
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We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.
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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.
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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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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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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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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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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
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