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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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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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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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To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.
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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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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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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.
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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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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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Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.
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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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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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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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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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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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Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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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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The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.
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