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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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…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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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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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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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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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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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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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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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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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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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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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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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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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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Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.
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I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.
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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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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
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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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