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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
Bird
Knowing
Learn
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Never
Birds
Flight

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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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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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We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.
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We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.
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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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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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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
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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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…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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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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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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The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.
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In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.
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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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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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