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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
Jobs
Expose
Participate
Mystery

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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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In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.
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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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Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.
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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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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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I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.
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Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life.
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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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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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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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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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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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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it
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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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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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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 sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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