Mark Nepo

And no one knows how to do this, which is why we need each other.

I think that I've come to think that life is made just difficult enough so we need each other to ensure the journey of love.

And it's bouncing back and forth from positive to negative, from true to false.

Like that question, it's not helpful.

Because it's always both.

I think that certainly, and those are amazing things you shared, certainly we can ready ourselves, but I don't know that we can will a shift in horizon.

And so this is where I think that great love and great suffering have always been the great teachers.

And we usually grow human beings by two major ways, many, but two major, one by willfully shedding and the other by being broken open.

And if you don't want to willfully shed, don't worry, you'll be broken open.

And it's usually a combination of both.

And what your friend had shared, which I totally agree with, is when we are broken open, or we are loved open, or we willfully shed the parameters of what we know so that we can grow, we glimpse the wholeness of life, like seeing the Earth from space.

And that changes everything.

Because while we want to live the moment that we're in, seeing things from the whole changes.

And again, it's both.

We talk about this is where the Native Americans are famous for saying every decision needs to be considered from the perspective of seven generations.

But we're still chopping wood to warm the fire to keep the family warm.

to only see from above or beyond is conceptual and to only be in the moment is to be at the mercy of the turbulence of life and we are asked to inhabit both in a way that i understand this another metaphor from the sea is we look at any part of the ocean

We see the surface and we see waves.

Well, actually, if you look below, you can't tell where a wave stops and the deep begins.

It's all one water.