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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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Joy in what we do is not an added feature it is a sign of deep health.
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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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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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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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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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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.
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All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
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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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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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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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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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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 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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My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire, and I find myself in the presence of love. This has always been so.
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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
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Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
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We need experience to release what matters.
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When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.
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