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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Nostalgia is wanting to go back
And live in a time because it feels like that was better than now.
The true purpose of memory, I'm finding, is if there was a time in my past where I felt a certain aliveness or a wonder or a gift or love, can I revisit that to remember what it feels like to trace and see where it is in me now?
So I can recover it now, not go back to then.
And the same thing with dreams at this stage of life.
If I'm dreaming forward, it's because I'm allowing something in me that wants to be born to come out.
And how do I take that and see where it lives in me now?
So actually, I'm learning this later in life.
It's actually very helpful practice no matter what age you are.
Well, that we are more together than alone and that we need each other.
And I would also...
You know, I would want to share maybe two notions about faith in a poem.
And the notions about faith, one is the Buddhist word for faith is sadha.
And it means, and I love this expression, it means resting the heart in what is true.
Resting the heart in what is true.
And I think that's an inner definition of not faith in a doctrine or a tradition or a saint or a sage, but functional faith.
And all the things we've been talking about, opening, admitting, opening our heart, ritual versus habit, all of these things, courage, surrender, they're ways to rest the heart in what is true.
And that lets us stand by our core.
And the outer sense of faith, functional faith, is I refer to Paul Tillich, who was a Protestant theologian, and he said, faith is an act of ultimate concern.
I love that.
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