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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
Fully
Violence
Heart
Antibodies
Infection
Engaged

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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 resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
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Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred
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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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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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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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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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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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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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We need experience to release what matters.
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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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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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In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.
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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 I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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