Audiobooks narrated by Mark Nepo

More Together Than Alone: Discovering the Power and Spirit of Community in Our Lives and in the Worl

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and popular spiritual teacher presents a poignant and timely meditation on the importance of community, and demonstrates how we live more enriching lives by cultivating connectedness. At once a moving meditation and an empowering guide, More Together Than Alone is an compelling testament to the power of community and why it's so essential in our lives, now more than ever. Mark Nepo draws from historical events, spiritual thought leaders, and the natural world to show how, in every generation, our tendency is to join together to accomplish our greatest achievements, from creating education to providing clean drinking water, and preserving the arts. Nepo's historical snapshots, from ancient times to contemporary examples, show how community creates a light in the darkest of times, and gets to the heart of how we come together in varied and beautiful ways, whether forming resistance groups during the Holocaust or rebuilding after the nuclear devastation in Nagasaki. These inspiring stories teach us that even in the bleakest days, we have the power to create connections and draw strength from one another. Featuring thought-provoking analysis and practical takeaways, More Together Than Alone will help us inhabit a stronger sense of togetherness where we live and in the world so we can achieve our highest potential, as individuals, and as communities.

Mark Nepo (Author), Mark Nepo (Narrator)

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The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your Heart

Beloved spiritual teacher, poet, and philosopher Mark Nepo returns to the inspiring short-chapter format of his #1 New York Times bestseller, The Book of Awakening, to map an insightful and resilient path for inhabiting the soul by engaging in the world.Mark Nepo has been called "one of the finest spiritual guides of our time," "a consummate storyteller," and "an eloquent spiritual teacher." With the rare ability to communicate stirringly profound truths directly to each individual heart, Mark inspires audiences of more than 15,000 people as well as small, intimate groups. Now, in The One Life We're Given, Nepo's personal stories, questions, and meditations take us on a deep and uplifting journey to know our own hearts and enliven our souls. "In order to fully live the one life we're given," Nepo writes, "we each must affirm how precious this one life is and open ourselves to loving whatever life puts before us. Whether that is suffering, pain, fear or loss, or surprise, beauty, love or wonder, we work to stay in touch with our hearts in order to make sense of our experience. As we learn when to try and when to let go, when to give our all and when to surrender and simply receive, we unfold the moments that reveal meaning and ready us for grace. This is how the heart breaks a path to our soul's work, leading us to our authenticity, and to how we can be useful to others and the world." By illuminating the art of finding and restoring what matters and by exploring the craft of awakening, The One Life We're Given affirms our purpose as not just to stay alive but to stay in our aliveness.

Mark Nepo (Author), Mark Nepo (Narrator)

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The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be

MARK NEPO MOVED AND INSPIRED millions of people with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening, a spiritual daybook that draws on his awakening through cancer to offer life lessons from all the spiritual traditions. In his continuing exploration of the human journey, Nepo has been called one of the finest spiritual guides of our time, a consummate storyteller, and an eloquent spiritual teacher. His new book, The Endless Practice, is an inquiry into how the soul works in the world, and how by engaging our soul in the world, we are shaped by the endless practice of becoming the person we were born to be. From the moment we open our eyes, we are meaning-seeking creatures, looking for what matters though we carry what matters deep within us. The ever-changing practice of being human involves learning how to strengthen our heart by exercising it in the world, and how to refine who we are through caring, building, holding and repairing. To do this, we must discover how to put down our old protections and stop interfering with the life-force that wants to open us like a flower. In this very personal journey, we have the chance to find our faith between who we are and what we do To be a soul in the world, we must keep participating in the wisdom of an open heart, so we can be empowered by the life of expression. All this helps us to discover our own wisdom and to use our own gifts. All this helps us to become the particular person we were born to be. Filled with questions to reflect on and discuss with others and meditations on how to return to what matters, this enlightening book teaches us how to discover and become our true selves.

Mark Nepo (Author), Mark Nepo (Narrator)

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Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

The New York Times #1 bestselling author of The Book of Awakening weaves a tapestry of deep reflection, memoir, and meditation to create a remarkable guide on how to listen to life and live more fully.Known for his penetrating books on resilience and suffering, poet, philosopher, and cancer survivor Mark Nepo continues to go deeper into what matters and to sift the wisdom that comes from confronting and recovering from the physical and spiritual challenges of life. In Seven Thousand Ways to Listen, he offers new lessons and insights on the importance of giving our full attention to all that life has to offer. Written in Nepo's beautiful, lyrical style, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen traces the story of his own hearing loss while unfolding a deeper understanding of how to listen to the world around us and to honor its connections to our internal life and callings. A moving exploration of self and our relationship to others, the book unpacks the many ways we are called to redefine ourselves and to name what is meaningful as we move through the changes that come from experience and aging and the challenge of surviving loss. "Listening is the way we befriend the life we're given," Nepo writes, and he has structured the book around three lasting friendships: our friendship with wisdom, with experience, and with each other. By listening and tending to each, he explains, we can awaken to life and restore our vitality. Filled with helpful instructions on how to return to what matters throughout the day, this enlightening book explores the many chances we have to listen and to be enlivened by what we hear. Ultimately, Nepo teaches us how to act wholeheartedly, so we can inhabit the gifts we are born with and find the language of our own wisdom.

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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The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

Hailed as one of "Oprah's Ultimate Favorite Things," Mark Nepo's bestselling "thinking person's devotional" of inspirational stories and essays is now available from S&S Audio. In this work, Mark Nepo invites listeners to explore their own inner core through the stories of ordinary people, political activists, artists, and spiritual teachers from a variety of traditions. These are people who have faced themselves, their warts and weaknesses. They have stood by the courage of their convictions in all kinds of moments, great and small.Nepo's insights and commentary are spot on, and help listeners relate the stories of others to their own lives. The Book of Awakening is divided into three sections-finding our inner core, standing by our inner core, and sustaining the practice of living from that place. Each of the brief essays and stories elucidates and inspires. Nepo's broad range of stories and people, of traditions and insights, offers myriad ways for listeners to relate to their own search for courage.

Mark Nepo (Author), Mark Nepo (Narrator)

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Finding Inner Courage

For the first time Finding Inner Courage (previously titled Facing the Lion, Being the Lion) is available on audio and will coincide with its trade paperback reissue and the audio release of The Book of Awakening. Finding Inner Courage is an exploration into how to find our way to our core, to stand by our core, and to then sustain the practice of living from our core-to live out of our courage. To encourage means to impart strength and confidence, to inspire and hearten. So, the question unfolds: How do we encourage ourselves, each other, and the world? And just what does it mean to live a life of encouragement?If to find our way to our core is to face the lion, then to stand by our core is to be the lion. And to sustain the practice of living from our core-to live out of our courage-is to find our way in the world by tracking inner courage and where it lives. These notions frame the journey of this book.The courage we all admire, where ordinary people summon unexpected strength to run into burning buildings or to stand up to tyrants, whether an abusive father or an abusive leader, this inspiring and mysterious impulse to rise to a dangerous situation, which Hemingway referred to as grace under pressure, grows from another kind of courage-inner courage. These are the ways of living and being that make bravery possible in the first place; not just as an event, but as an approach to life, as a way of life. Thinking about courage in this way opens us to an array of small and constant efforts that no one ever sees, but which have changed the world: the courage to face ourselves, each other, and the unknown, the courage to see, to feel, to accept, to heal, to be. Efforts of this nature often go unnoticed and unrecognized. Like the courage to break life-draining patterns and let the story of our lives unfold, to stand by one's core, and to persevere through the doorway of nothing into the realm of everything. Like the courage to choose compassion over judgment and love over fear, to withstand the tension of opposites, and to give up what no longer works in order to stay close to what is sacred.

Mark Nepo (Author), Mark Nepo (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Mark Nepo