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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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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.
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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly.
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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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Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
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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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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 greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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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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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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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.
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We need to meet, embrace and work with what we're given. For what we want and what we're given often serve two different gods. And how we respond to their meeting determines our path.
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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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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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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.
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