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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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Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life.
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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.
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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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Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.
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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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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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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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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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Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.
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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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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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To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
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I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.
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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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