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Mark Nepo (born February 23, 1951, in Brooklyn, New York), is a poet and philosopher who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over 30 years. Nepo is best known for his New York Times #1 bestseller, The Book of Awakening. He has published 12 books and recorded six audio projects. A cancer survivor, Nepo writes and teaches about the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship.

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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.

Head, Humans, Life, Meeting, Meetings, Unfathomable

Love and grief enable us to feel how we're all at heart the same. In love and grief, which is always very personal, the distinctions that separate us melt away.

Distinction, Enable, Grief, Heart, Separate

The broken door lets in the light. The broken heart lets in the world.

Door, Doors, Heart, Lets, Light, World

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.

Art, Men, Way, Young

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

Lasting, Obstructs, Practice, Real, Who We Are

The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.

Everywhere, Life, Life Is, Resources, Smallest, Things

I would rather be fooled than not believe.

Believe, Fooled

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Bee, Dream, Flower, Life, Positive, Success

There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.

Broken, Down, Longer, Shedding, Thinking, Two

The world needs awakened souls the way a body needs healthy cells.

Cells, Healthy, Needs, Soul, Souls

We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

Broken, Open, Shed, Willfully

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.

Heart, Kind, Mind, Space, Storehouse, Underside

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.

Alive, Heart, Life, Magnificent, Rare, Want

The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.

Can Do, Closer, Freshness, Greatest, Living

Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.

Destination, Heart, Light, Song, Wakefulness

Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.

Compassion, Connects, Inner Peace, People, Precious, Reminds

Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.

Days, Hidden, Seed, Seeds, Truth Is, Watered

Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.

Born, Grace, Incorruptible, Spots

No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.

Bird, Exposing, Fly, Heart, Opening, Wings

To love by admitting our connection to everything is how we stay well.

Admitting, Connection, Connections, Stay, Wells

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