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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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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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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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When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.
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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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If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.
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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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Joy in what we do is not an added feature it is a sign of deep health.
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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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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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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.
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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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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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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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I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.
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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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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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We need to meet, embrace and work with what we're given. For what we want and what we're given often serve two different gods. And how we respond to their meeting determines our path.
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