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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Violence
Heart
Antibodies
Infection
Engaged
Fully

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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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Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
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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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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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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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The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.
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Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.
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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.
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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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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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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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Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.
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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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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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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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