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We need experience to release what matters.
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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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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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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If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.
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Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.
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Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
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Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.
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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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Joy in what we do is not an added feature it is a sign of deep health.
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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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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
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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 mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.
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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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All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
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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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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.
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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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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
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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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