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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find 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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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
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If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.
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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 wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.
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To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
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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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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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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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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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