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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
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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Complete
Earth
Soul

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Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.
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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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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.
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We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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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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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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The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.
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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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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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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 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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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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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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