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Episode 33: Rebroadcast of "A Conversation with Author/Poet Mark Nepo

The Growing Edge

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Is There a Sadder Way to Die Well?

At age 80 I can't imagine a sadder way to die then with the realization that I never really showed up in the world as my true self. The point is to show up and to die with the sense that I spent 80 plus years on the face of this earth never really appearing. We have that opportunity at every moment that you know we show up we are true our self it gets hardWe fall down we stumble we forget we remember againwe find that sense of wholeness we show up again, says Mark Twain.

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