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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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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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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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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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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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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.
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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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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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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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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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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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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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When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.
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Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.
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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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The pain of life is pure salt no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of thingsstop being a glass. Become a lake.
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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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The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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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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