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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 are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.
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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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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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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
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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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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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There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.
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I would want to affirm how rare and magnificent and messy it is to be alive, how there is really nothing between us and life, though so many things get in the way, and how our heart is the strongest muscle and resource we have.
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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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Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred
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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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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.
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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 we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.
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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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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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