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Walk long enough and we all trade places.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Long
Trade
Places
Walk
Walks
Enough

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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 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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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 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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We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.
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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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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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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.
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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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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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The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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