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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 fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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When the sweet ache of being alive, lodged between who you are and who you will be, is awakened, befriend this moment. It will guide you. Its sweetness is what holds you. Its ache is what moves you on.
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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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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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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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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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The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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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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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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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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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
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The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.
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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
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The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.
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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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Joy in what we do is not an added feature it is a sign of deep health.
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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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