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Book: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred
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  1. Mark Nepo _ Seven Thousand Ways to Listen:

    The wildflower's reward for trusting what it senses but doesn't yet know is to become what is was born to be-a flower whose inevitable place is realized in a small moment of Oneness, as it joins with elements that were here before it came alive and which will live on once it dies.
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  2. Mark Nepo _ Seven Thousand Ways to Listen:

    Can we listen to each other the way veins listen to blood?
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  3. Mark Nepo _ Seven Thousand Ways to Listen:

    Being human, we are constantly broken apart by experience. To reconcile our humanness means we are ever learning how to accept our suffering and to restore our Wholeness.
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  4. Mark Nepo _ Seven Thousand Ways to Listen:

    I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.
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  5. Mark Nepo _ Seven Thousand Ways to Listen:

    being articulate is not a facility of language but a fidelity to vision. And so we are all articulate when finding the courage to say what we see.
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  6. Mark Nepo _ Seven Thousand Ways to Listen:

    Now, I want only to give away all that I'm blessed to know and disappear in the stream.
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  7. Mark Nepo _ Seven Thousand Ways to Listen:

    A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. -OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
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  8. Mark Nepo _ Seven Thousand Ways to Listen:

    Help me resist the urge to dispute whether things are true or false which is like arguing whether it is day or night. It is always one or the other somewhere in the world. Together, we can penetrate a higher truth which like the sun is always being conveyed.
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  9. Mark Nepo _ Seven Thousand Ways to Listen:

    The truth is that life will break us and burn us at some point on the journey. This is not pessimistic or cynical but descriptive of the geography of being alive. It is part of how we are transformed by the journey. Yet when we're broken or burned by events, we feel betrayed by God. When we're broken or burned by people, we feel betrayed by other souls.
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  10. Mark Nepo _ Seven Thousand Ways to Listen:

    Likewise, every disturbance, whether resolved or not, is making space for an inner engagement. As a shovel digs up and displaces earth, in a way that must seem violent to the earth, an interior space is revealed for the digging. In just this way, when experience opens us, it often feels violent and the urge, quite naturally, is to refill that opening, to make it the way it was. But every experience excavates a depth, which reveals its wisdom once opened to air.
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  11. Mark Nepo _ Seven Thousand Ways to Listen:

    The things that frighten us just want to be held.
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  12. Mark Nepo _ Seven Thousand Ways to Listen:

    It seems that intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us."
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