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Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.
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When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.
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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 extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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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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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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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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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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Joy in what we do is not an added feature it is a sign of deep health.
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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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…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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