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#120: Finding Your Soul in The Darkness with Francis Weller

The Mark Groves Podcast

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The Importance of Elders

"I don't know if elders are there to prevent us from having our own encounters with life," he says. "They begin, they're there to tell us that they are inevitable and survivable." In a heroic culture where you're always supposed to be successful, climbing, rising, all those other moments of failure and defeat are seen as marks against my being", the author adds.

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