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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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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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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.
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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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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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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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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
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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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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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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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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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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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Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.
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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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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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