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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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Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.
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We need experience to release what matters.
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To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.
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As nature erodes the earth into magnificent forms, life through endless experience opens us further and further to the essence of what matters. Each time I've been opened further, the way I experience life and receive things has changed.
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The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.
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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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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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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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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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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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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 tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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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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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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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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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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The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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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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