Mark Nepo

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918 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 8 Jan

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The Mel Robbins Podcast · The Exact Words You Need to Hear Today If It Feels Like Nothing’s Working · 13 Nov 2025 podcast

So, you know, I start the book with a metaphor that has been such a teacher for me, and it's the metaphor of a meteor.

Now, as a meteor comes into the atmosphere, very few land on Earth.

Most of them are burned up.

So what happens is a meteor comes into the atmosphere, and as it starts to flake off, it gets brighter and brighter until there's nothing left but light.

I think this is a good metaphor for the journey of a spirit and a body in time on earth over a lifetime.

Now, you know, we don't like the flaking off.

You know, my back surgery was flaking off.

You know, the arthritis I'm starting to feel is a flaking off.

But I am getting brighter and brighter.

And in letting that light that's coming through me be my teacher.

So I think, and so one of the things that happens too is I think our horizons shift.

You know, I'm 74.

I sure hope I live to be 100.

You know, my great-grandmother lived to be 105.

And my grandmother, 94.

So, you know, I'm hoping.

But regardless, there's more years behind than ahead.

And so the horizon shifts in that the true purpose of looking forward or back is to make my light brighter now.

So this brings in the true purpose of memory.

Memory is not nostalgia.

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