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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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Earth
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Findings
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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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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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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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We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.
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There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.
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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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Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.
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For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.
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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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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.
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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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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.
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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
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