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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Earth
Release
Findings
Finding
Asked
Heaven
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Living

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As nature erodes the earth into magnificent forms, life through endless experience opens us further and further to the essence of what matters. Each time I've been opened further, the way I experience life and receive things has changed.
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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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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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If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.
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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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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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