Mark Nepo

And if you're lonely, you say hello.

Get out of the house.

Doesn't mean that every interaction will be... Some may be awkward.

Some may not work out.

Some may be irritated, but you're engaged in life.

And so even as simply as instead of reading at home alone, read in a cafe where even if you never say hello to another person, you're around other life, you're exchanging presence and energy.

So expand our sense of solitude to let others in.

so that the line between self and other blurs.

It is for sure.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It's very touching for sharing that from your service with your sister.

Well, I think and let's back up a little bit when we talk about our time and things are very difficult and acute and polarized.

And I would back up and say that every generation, every age faces the same thing.

The things that trigger us, the things that block us are different in each age and each generation.

But this is part of the archetypal journey of being alive, being human, struggling to be awake, to stay awake, to remember who we are to ourselves and each other.

So I think from my cancer journey, I'm 74 now.

And if I met someone my age when I was younger, I thought they were ancient.

It doesn't seem so old now.

In my early 30s, I almost died from a rare form of lymphoma.