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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
Heart
Antibodies
Infection
Engaged
Fully
Violence

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To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.
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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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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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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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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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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
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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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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.
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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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When the sweet ache of being alive, lodged between who you are and who you will be, is awakened, befriend this moment. It will guide you. Its sweetness is what holds you. Its ache is what moves you on.
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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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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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