Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned … - Mark Nepo

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Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Mark Nepo

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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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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As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt imagine itself loved or at peace. The courage of the seed is that once cracking, it cracks all the way.

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Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.

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