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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
Trade
Places
Walk
Walks
Enough
Long

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What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.
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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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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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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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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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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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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
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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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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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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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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
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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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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.
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We need experience to release what matters.
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