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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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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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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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As nature erodes the earth into magnificent forms, life through endless experience opens us further and further to the essence of what matters. Each time I've been opened further, the way I experience life and receive things has changed.
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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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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 soul on earth is complete unto itself.
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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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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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The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.
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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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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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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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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.
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When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.
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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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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.
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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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