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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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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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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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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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Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.
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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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…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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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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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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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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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.
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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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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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It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.
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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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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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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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