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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
Inspirational
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People
Shining
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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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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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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.
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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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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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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.
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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred
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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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When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.
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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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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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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.
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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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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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