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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
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Brooklyn
New York
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Unto
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Earth

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…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)
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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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To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
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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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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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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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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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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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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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Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
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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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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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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
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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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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.
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To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.
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My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire, and I find myself in the presence of love. This has always been so.
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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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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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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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