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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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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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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 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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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 sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
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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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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 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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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 would want to affirm how rare and magnificent and messy it is to be alive, how there is really nothing between us and life, though so many things get in the way, and how our heart is the strongest muscle and resource we have.
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To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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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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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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The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.
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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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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
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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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In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.
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