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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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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Obstructs
Lasting
Remove
Practice
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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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When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.
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The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.
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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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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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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.
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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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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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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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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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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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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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It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.
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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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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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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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