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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
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Release
Matters
Experience
Matter
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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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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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Walk long enough and we all trade places.
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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 mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.
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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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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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To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
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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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In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.
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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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The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
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When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
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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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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 life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.
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