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The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Life
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Smallest
Everywhere
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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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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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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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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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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.
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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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There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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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 extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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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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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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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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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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