Mark Nepo
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918 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 8 Jan
Mark Nepo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And she said, well, we're stuck.
I said, well, what's going on?
And meanwhile, her son, who was probably 28, six, four, he's just got this wry smile on his face.
And she says, well, I told Jack what was true for me, but he said that he doesn't think anything's true.
So we're at an impasse.
And I didn't know I was going to say this, but because they share it, my heart said, well, I'm inviting you to listen to each other.
So if your son moved to China, would you ask him, what's it like to live in China?
What brought you there?
Do you like living there?
Do you see yourself staying there?
Well, he's told you he lives in the land where nothing is true.
Can you ask him, what's it like to live in the land where nothing is true?
What brought you there?
And he's smiling the whole time, not saying a word.
And they went back.
Well, what happened in the retreat was there was another mother grieving that she had a son of a similar age about a month earlier who had died in a car crash.
And watching this mother and son, she, a little later in the weekend, burst into tears and left the room.
And we took a break and made sure she was okay.
And when she came back into the room, this young man who didn't believe anything was true was the first one to run across the room and sweep her up in his arms.
And so at the end of the retreat, as we were saying goodbye to different people, and he was taller than me and I went up, he came up and I said, can I share something with you?
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