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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.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Feel
Hear
Larger
Feels
Stop
Forced
Universe
Noise
Energy
Discover
Place
Humility
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Soul
Beginning
Everything
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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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