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We travel so far only to land where we are. We imagine other lives, only to meet who we are. We seek out love in special ways, only to find everyone is special. Humbly, we can't avoid this journey.
Mark Nepo
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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
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My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire, and I find myself in the presence of love. This has always been so.
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The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.
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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
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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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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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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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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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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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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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The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
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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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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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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.
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