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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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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 all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.
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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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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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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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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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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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If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.
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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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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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What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.
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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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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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Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.
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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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To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.
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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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