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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
World
Heal

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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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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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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.
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The pain of life is pure salt no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of thingsstop being a glass. Become a lake.
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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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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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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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The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.
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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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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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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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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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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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To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.
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