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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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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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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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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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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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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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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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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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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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The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.
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Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.
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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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A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it
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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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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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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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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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When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.
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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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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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