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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
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Heaven
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.
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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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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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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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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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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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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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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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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 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 extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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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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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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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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Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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I would want to affirm how rare and magnificent and messy it is to be alive, how there is really nothing between us and life, though so many things get in the way, and how our heart is the strongest muscle and resource we have.
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