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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
Birds
Flight
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Knowing
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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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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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I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.
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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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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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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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To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.
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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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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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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.
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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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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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In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.
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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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