Mark Nepo

Which doesn't mean that we don't do things.

One of the things in our modern world, we have rightly an emphasis on heart and being, because we're so out of balance with thinking and doing.

But ideally, I think like you need two good feet to walk, being and doing compliment each other and at their best.

when we're fully inhabited, they're one in the same.

Just like when we're really there for each other, it's hard to know who's giving and who's receiving.

They really become the same thing.

And that is the reward for that deep immersion.

And there is an epidemic of loneliness in our age, and I know especially with young people.

And I was on an interview with a young editor in London, a young woman, and

who asked about this and I don't give advice.

I just share and you know, what I share are examples, not instructions.

And, but I found myself speaking from my cancer journey and that, and what came up was you don't interview ambulance drivers.

You take the first one.

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 there are, 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.

Well, thank you for that question.