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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Heal
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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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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In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.
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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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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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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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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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There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.
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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
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Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.
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The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.
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