Mark Nepo

When we look back, which we tend to do as we get older.

Okay.

But the difference between what I try to uncover in the book as the helpful use of memory versus one that kind of entraps us, nostalgia entraps us.

So nostalgia is when I look back to 20 years ago to a very wonderful experience and I go, gee, well, I wish I could have that again.

I wish I could go back there.

But what the helpful use of memory is, I go back to whatever that memory is to touch into what was alive then and trace it because that stream of aliveness is always there.

Oh, where is it showing up in me now?

So just like we go back in memory to say, oh, yeah, where is that aliveness in me now?

And I dream forward.

Well, now forget going forward.

Where can I trace it back so that both memory and dream help us realize what is wants to be alive in us right now?

and what is it well i think yeah metaphor and again it has been my native language even when i was a kid i didn't know what metaphor was but it was that's how the world's always spoken to me how spirit has always spoken to me now and so what i would i want to share from that is every one of us has a gift and part of our job of awakening and immersing and following our heart is to discover what our gift is and let it be our teacher

Bruce D Potter, Let it be our teacher, so the metaphor just entering the second half of life myself and trying to understand from all the things i've been through this paradox of.

Bruce D Potter, How well outwardly yes, the body starts to wear away and we have limit physical limitations, but at the same time.

throughout our life of the spirit is deepening and broadening and expanding and illuminating and if we don't become a student of that then the limitations of the earthly body will take over and be way out of proportion so it's not reframing it's not turning from one to the other it's allowing both

to accurately right-size what our experience is as a spirit in a body in time on Earth.

So I guess trying to live into all of that, this metaphor came about the meteor.

So we know that meteors, very few reach Earth because they burn up in the atmosphere.

And so when a meteor starts, it's a certain size, and as it moves through the atmosphere, more and more of it flakes off

and it gets brighter and brighter until there's nothing left but light.