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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
Mystery
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What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.
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The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.
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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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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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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 are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.
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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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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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I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.
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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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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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The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.
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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
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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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Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
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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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