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

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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The pain of life is pure salt no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of thingsstop being a glass. Become a lake.
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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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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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What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.
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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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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
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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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If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.
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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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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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The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it
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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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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.
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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.
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