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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Incorruptible
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Spots
Grace
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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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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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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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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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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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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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Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
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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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I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.
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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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It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.
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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
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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 greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.
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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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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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