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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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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in 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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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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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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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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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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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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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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