Mark Nepo

On the one hand, there's a tribe of thinkers throughout the generations who have said human beings are, they can't trust them.

If you don't have constraints and rules, they're going to be cruel.

They're going to just go with self-interest.

So we really need to

clamp down on these strange beings and there's the other which I'm a part of that tribe of thinkers and feelers that says no human beings are innately good and left to their to our own basic human nature we will be kind and help each other and be more together than alone and the things that block us

come from, we can be blocked by others, by suffering, by the world we live in, by ourselves, by the wounds that we, but our job of awakening is how to repair from those blockages and wake up again.

And the heart is, I believe, our strongest muscle, our strongest instrument.

And the word trust literally means to follow the heart.

And so we are asked not to bend life to us, but to inhabit life.

And there was a Chinese philosopher Mencius in 300 BC.

And I loved, he had this wonderful metaphor for this.

He said that water allowed its true nature will always flow downhill and join other water.

It can be manipulated.

can go even uphill or sideways or through a dam or a pipe but allowed its true nature it will flow and join other water he said so too we allowed our true nature we will flow and join with each other we will help each other we won't even think about it it'll be just innate but we can be we can manipulate ourselves and be and i think we live in it now to come back to where to our age

And our turn, this is, and this doesn't minimize the suffering, the cruelty, the lack of compassion that we're seeing in our age globally, but it's our turn.

Will we choose love over fear?

Will we remove what's in the way?

Will we remember, oh my God, it's you.

Oh, so I think that there are many things in our modern world that have

almost like an inadvertent perfect storm.