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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
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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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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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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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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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Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.
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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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…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)
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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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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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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.
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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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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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All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
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I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.
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What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.
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