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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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We need to meet, embrace and work with what we're given. For what we want and what we're given often serve two different gods. And how we respond to their meeting determines our path.
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Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.
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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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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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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.
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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.
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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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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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Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.
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To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
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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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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.
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To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.
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