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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He said, sure.
And I put my hand on his heart and I said, whatever caused you to reach out to that grieving mother, that was true.
Now that, you can't, you don't plan things like that.
He who believed nothing was true was the teacher that weekend.
Oh, thank you.
And this is the blessing, you know, because for me, this is how I learned.
That period of your life and what was happening that led to this series of essays?
I was, you know, I was a young poet who I hope maybe, maybe if I worked really hard, I might write one or two poems that maybe would matter or be thought of as great, you know.
And then all of a sudden I was, you know, I was stricken with a rare form of lymphoma and everything was upended.
And I was in the hospital and it was in my skull bone.
It had grown to the size of a grapefruit.
And then when someone told me I had cancer,
And I walked out that door and that was the first life-changing moment because the door I had come in by was no longer there.
Life before that appointment, there was no way back.
And now I was in the new world.
And now in that moment, everything was difficult, fearful.
And then I had to somehow, you know, everyone, and this is the kind of common passage, everyone, that all the spiritual traditions talk about, everyone will be dropped into the depth of life at some point.
And a lot of times we talk about it because difficult, life-challenging things bring us there.
But it's not just that.
We're not deifying suffering.
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