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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 extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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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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Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life.
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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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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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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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To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.
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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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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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The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.
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We travel so far only to land where we are. We imagine other lives, only to meet who we are. We seek out love in special ways, only to find everyone is special. Humbly, we can't avoid this journey.
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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
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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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I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.
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What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.
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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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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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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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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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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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