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

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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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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To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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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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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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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 life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.
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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.
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Joy in what we do is not an added feature it is a sign of deep health.
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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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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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Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.
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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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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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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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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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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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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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