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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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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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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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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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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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The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who 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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Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.
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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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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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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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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.
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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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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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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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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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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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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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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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