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We need experience to release what matters.

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Release
Matters
Experience
Matter
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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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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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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
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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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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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The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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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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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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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
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The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
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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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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.
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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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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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