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Being human Quote by Mark Nepo

“Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.” quote by Mark Nepo — Download Open image

“Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.”

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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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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.

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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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We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten…

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“Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.”

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