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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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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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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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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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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
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We travel so far only to land where we are. We imagine other lives, only to meet who we are. We seek out love in special ways, only to find everyone is special. Humbly, we can't avoid this journey.
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What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.
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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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All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
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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 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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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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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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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 fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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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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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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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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