Audiobooks narrated by Mark Nepo

Flames That Light the Heart: Ten Lessons for Living with Meaning, Truth, and Kindness

"Embracing the Life of Growth and Transformation “Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience, and everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom,” teaches Mark Nepo. Flames That Light the Heart brings you into the company of the beloved poet and author for a rich conversation on the life of transformation and the heartwork that is required to be a spirit in the world. Teachings and Practices for Making Sense of Our Experience How do we listen to life and not to what life does to us when suffering and loss meet us at every turn? How do we make sense of our experience? “My offering here is to explore these challenges and introduce you to your own wisdom and gifts, to help you personalize the ways you can nourish the spark of life we each carry inside,” explains Mark Nepo. In 10 audio sessions, he explores the passages that open us, as well as the skills and ways of being that help us meet the difficulties that life brings us. Join him in this intimate conversation on our shared “growing pains of transformation” and the art of living “as an awakened part in an awakened whole.” Highlights: • What it means to be transformed by what we go through • Being true to your own nature • The wisdom of a broken heart • Changing our relationship with fear • The practice of loving what you do • Obstacles as teachers • The peace that abides in every moment • More than five hours of insightful teachings, moving poetry, and practical guidance "

Mark Nepo (Author), Mark Nepo (Narrator)

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Inside the Miracle: Enduring Suffering, Approaching Wholeness

"Many are familiar with teacher and poet Mark Nepo's books on inner transformation, relationship, and the emergence of purpose in our lives. But less well-known is the journey that shaped his vision as a teacher that began in 1987 when he was diagnosed with cancer. The revelations during that time would inform every dimension of his work to follow. With Inside the Miracle, Mark Nepo shares what he discovered along this challenging terrain, and the insights most essential to those of us who now find ourselves there. The lessons and stories here are for all of us, ill or not, when the inevitable question arises: How do we move through an overwhelming crisis—whether from physical illness, grief, or a major life change—into the rest of our lives? This offering presents in its entirety Nepo's 1994 literary gem Acre of Light, written shortly after his recovery. Here, he expands and enriches its themes with new poems, essays, and teachings gathered in the decades since. Throughout, Mark includes compelling questions and exercises from his popular workshops, to invite us to personalize the experience. What emerges is a reading companion to be explored in many ways: as a memoir, as a “survival kit” of wisdom and verse that helped Mark during his own journey, and as a conversation to spark our own contemplation, journaling, and discovery. “To live in wonder on the other side of suffering and disappointment,” reflects Mark Nepo, “is to know how magnificent and fragile it is to be here at all.” Inside the Miracle calls us to leap into our lives with tenderness and courage, so we can fully inhabit the miraculous moments that await us."

Mark Nepo (Author), Mark Nepo (Narrator)

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Reduced to Joy: The Journey from Our Head to Our Heart

"Poetry and Inspiration for the Journey of Being Human The infinitely varied journeys of our lives share a common destiny: to be worn of all that is not essential till we are reduced to joy. On Reduced to Joy, bestselling author and poet-philosopher Mark Nepo invites you to join him in a poignant examination of 'the gifts and challenges of being a spirit here on Earth,' through six captivating sessions that address the vital task of discovering and returning to what matters. Listening to the Teachers Hidden in Every Moment Mark Nepo describes poetry as 'the unexpected utterance of the soul.' Every poem and by extension every moment can serve as a teacher, if we can attend to it with an open mind and heart. By sharing 56 original poems along with the insights of fellow writers, Mark brings us into our own living conversation with the teachers hidden in everything that we experience, in order to welcome their universal lessons. Over the course of this six-hour program, he reveals the genesis of his own poems, unpacks the stunning insights they hold, and encourages us to reflect both personally and with friends on how these empowering truths show themselves in the poetic revelations of our own lives. There is a Sioux saying that the longest journey you will ever make in your life is from your head to your heart. No one is exempt from this great adventure. With Reduced to Joy, Mark Nepo awaits as your guide to the place 'where the glow of your heart touches everything it meets so you can't help but remember how dear it is to be alive.' Highlights The Longest Journey—on doing, being, and awakening the source of genius within • To Know By Heart—on moving from depth to surface and 'loving your window' • The Art of Facing Things—on the courage to say yes to life again and again • Walking Together—on authentic relationship and expanding the heart's perception • Made from Bone—on the promise of the inner world and our lineage of spirit • The Sublime Disturbance—on that which causes us to live fully in the open"

Mark Nepo (Author), Mark Nepo (Narrator)

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Holding Nothing Back: Essentials for an Authentic Life

"A Poet's Guidance for the Practice of True Self-Expression All spiritual traditions affirm that fully participating in our own life is what allows us to find our place in the fullness and beauty of the world. As such, holding nothing back is less a forceful act of will and more a surrender into the current of life we are always in. In Holding Nothing Back, Mark Nepo invites us to enliven the one obligation we are born with: to be completely who you are. Our reward is nothing less than the realization that “all of life is in whatever moment we wake to.” Holding Nothing Back illuminates: • The Fall into Life—our inevitable journey into what is real, and how we only find meaning through relationship • Alone and Together—the paradox of being and belonging and how we need both solitude and community • The Mystery of Transformation—staying true to the spirit within while the person carrying it keeps evolving “To hold nothing back means staying committed to letting whatever we experience make its way in and letting whatever is in make its way out,” explains Nepo. “Holding nothing back means holding the intention to be an open vessel, in a daily way.” Here is his passionate call to each of us to find and befriend the quiet courage to bring all of who we are to every step we take through the miraculous world. Excerpted from the full-length audio program Staying Awake. Course objectives: • Discuss the transformative journey of holding nothing back as a practice of truth and love. • Define our soul's calling, or what we are called to do, and the call of the soul, or the continual call to aliveness. • Discuss paradox: being alone and belonging, as well as effort and grace as the path of oneness. • Define and discuss enthusiasm, obstacles, and sincerity as teachers on the transformative journey toward living an authentic life and awakening. • Practice deepening the discussions with suggested reflection, writing exercises, storytelling, ritual and meditation."

Mark Nepo (Author), Mark Nepo (Narrator)

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Staying Awake: The Ordinary Art

"Course objectives: • Discuss the direct tasting of life, including the unwanted guest and what it asks of us. • Summarize the roles of the deep listener, the deep speaker, and the deep questioner within. • Recognize the risk to be present, gifts of paradox, metaphor, and the reliable truths that never change. • Apply the ordinary art of staying awake through self-inquiry, journaling, personal ritual, poetry, stories, and personal myth. Most of us can remember a time when we felt completely awake—fully present, deeply engaged, our heart and mind wide open. We also know those periods of sleepiness when our purpose is unclear, we lose our way in relationship, and life’s challenges seem more than we can bear. In Staying Awake, Mark Nepo invites us to inhabit our truest selves “in all ways in all directions,” as we find our own voices in the One Conversation in which each of our lives is a story waiting to be told. With a poet’s keen view of the vast and often hidden territory of the inner life, Mark Nepo talks directly about what a gift it is to be here and about the resources that the mysteries of being and experience reveal. Informed by his journey through cancer, he explores the lessons brought to us by the press of love and suffering. For each of us is born awake and yet it takes courage to stay awake, to remember that all we encounter is real. Sharing his own rich poetry along with the inspired writing of luminaries across generations, Nepo guides us in the central practice of staying awake: to be who we are, no matter what we face, and to enter our days and moments to the fullest. We do this, he teaches, by holding nothing back—by bringing all of who we are to every situation, enlivening our connection with everything life has to offer. Using teaching stories and a series of exercises and reflections, Nepo invites us to listen to our own stories and to find our own wisdom. “We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine,” teaches Mark Nepo. Staying Awake is his offering to all of us who seek “the love of truth and the truth of love that help us live.” Highlights • The direct tasting of life • The unwanted guest and what it asks of us • The deep listener, the deep speaker, and the deep questioner within • Metaphor and whole-mind thinking • The gifts of paradox • The risk to be present • The reliable truths that never change • Nine hours of poetry, story, exercises, and explorations for practicing the ordinary art of staying awake"

Mark Nepo (Author), Mark Nepo (Narrator)

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As Far As The Heart Can See: Stories to Illuminate the Soul

"The latest spiritual awareness guide from Mark Nepo, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awakening. New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awakening Mark Nepo offers a storyguide book for those who seek a deeper experience of life. Stories carry the seeds of our humanity. They help us, teach us, heal us, and connect us to what matters. By stimulating change through reflection of thoughts and feelings by means of stories, poet and philosopher Mark Nepo offers listeners an invitation to be in relationship with deep and life-giving material. This collection of forty-five stories, questions for discussion, and jounaling prompts brings a fresh and new perspective to the field of spirituality. Drawn from Nepo’s personal history, dreams, and the myths of our ancestors, each one is an invitation to awaken an aspect of living in relationship with the sacred."

Mark Nepo (Author), Mark Nepo (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Mark Nepo

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