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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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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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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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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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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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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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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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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 mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.
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We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.
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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.
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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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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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For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.
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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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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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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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