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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
Born
Incorruptible
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Spots
Grace

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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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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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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.
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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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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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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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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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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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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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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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Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life.
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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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I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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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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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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