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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
Walks
Enough
Long
Trade
Places
Walk

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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 fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
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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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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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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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My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire, and I find myself in the presence of love. This has always been so.
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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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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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The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly.
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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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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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As nature erodes the earth into magnificent forms, life through endless experience opens us further and further to the essence of what matters. Each time I've been opened further, the way I experience life and receive things has changed.
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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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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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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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I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.
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When the sweet ache of being alive, lodged between who you are and who you will be, is awakened, befriend this moment. It will guide you. Its sweetness is what holds you. Its ache is what moves you on.
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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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