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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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We need to meet, embrace and work with what we're given. For what we want and what we're given often serve two different gods. And how we respond to their meeting determines our path.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
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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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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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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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The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.
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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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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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The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.
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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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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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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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We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.
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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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