Overview
"Falling Down and Getting Up is an invitation to view adversity from a new perspective. In this gentle, insightful guide, Mark Nepo helps readers navigate the challenges of life by transforming their experience into a chance for deepening and renewal. Each one of us is offered opportunities to choose between surviving and thriving, managing risk and enhancing risk, opening and closing, giving and receiving, living a balance between solitude and community. We can choose to enlarge our sense of things when pain and fear make us small. We can choose to delight in the never-ending practice of course-correcting and tuning as we go. Falling Down and Getting Up introduces readers to their own gifts and wisdom, helping them explore the perennial practices and choice-points we all face in life. Mark Nepo is a master teacher who has been convening circles and guiding retreats for fifty years all over the world. Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, he has been called ""one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,"" ""a consummate storyteller,"" and ""an eloquent spiritual teacher."" Filled with humble insights and wise words, Falling Down and Getting Up will encourage and inspire readers from every walk of life."
Full Product Details
Author: Mark Nepo
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Imprint: St Martin's Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.90cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 21.10cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9781250909947
ISBN 10: 1250909945
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 05 September 2023
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Mark Nepo has led workshops at Omega Institute for many years. His classes are like a gathering of travelers at an oasis, a nourishing stop on a long journey. Now, in this treasure of a book, we all get the chance to experience the magic Mark creates--the learning, the beauty, the healing. As Mark says, 'We need each other to heal one more time than we are broken.' This new book is sublime. --Elizabeth Lesser, co-founder of Omega Institute and author of Broken Open and Cassandra Speaks Mark Nepo's words have been a friend by my side for as long as I can remember. Mark uses language to weave us into the web of life, so we feel held, seen, and a part of something beautiful. He has done it yet again with Falling Down and Getting Up. Mark has travelled into the depths of what it means to be human and brought back this book for all of us. When you fall, and you will because we all do, this book will be an outstretched hand helping you to stand again, and take the next step. -- Beth Kempton, bestselling author of Wabi Sabi: Japanese wisdom for a perfectly imperfect life Lyrical, insightful, and wise, Surviving Storms is the guide to resilience that we find ourselves so desperately needing, both for individuals and communities. Mark Nepo's words are a potent antidote to discouragement and a heartfelt call to perseverance. -- Arianna Huffington, founder & CEO, Thrive How can we walk through the fractured landscape of today and keep our eyes clear and our hearts open? Through his ability to find the wisdom in ordinary things, Mark Nepo shows how heartwork can deepen us on this journey, helping us to repair ourselves and the world. Here are resources for the traveler, helping us to say yes to life, awakening us to the grace that is always present. --Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, PhD, Sufi teacher and author, Sufism: the Transformation of the Heart Mark Nepo has long been a steady guide in living with an open heart. In his latest book, Mark brings a lifetime of experience and learning to bear on how we can find the strength to survive the storms life puts in our path. This book is an enduring resource for our times. Journey here and discover your own strength. --Chip Conley, New York Times bestselling author and founder of the Modern Elder Academy
Author Information
MARK NEPO is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. His books - including The Book of Awakening, The One Life We're Given, and Drinking From the River of Light -- have been translated into twenty languages. Mark has appeared several times with Oprah Winfrey on her Super Soul Sunday program. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation. In 2016, he was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.
