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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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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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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.
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I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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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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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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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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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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