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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
Inspirational
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People
Shining
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…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)
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Joy in what we do is not an added feature it is a sign of deep health.
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It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.
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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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The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.
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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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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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Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.
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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
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Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.
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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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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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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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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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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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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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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.
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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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