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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.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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Everyday
Limits
Choices
Everyone
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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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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 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 extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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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 is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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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 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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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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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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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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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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Joy in what we do is not an added feature it is a sign of deep health.
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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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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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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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The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.
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