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The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Fork
Tuning
Forks
Sacred
Expression
Find
Way
Life

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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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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.
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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.
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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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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.
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Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.
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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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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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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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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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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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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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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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A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it
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