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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.
In The Press
"A wonderful book, full of wisdom and insight."
—Parabola
"Drawn from Mark Nepo's many years of teaching, this book
offers a transformative journey that helps us to connect with and
explore the eternal part of ourselves—our spiritual nature, our
essence. Falling down is part of the human journey, but Mark shows us
how it can become a path of spiritual transformation. In this book,
Mark unfolds the courage that can befriend us in learning the dance of
falling down and getting up with grace."
—Baptist de Pape,
author of the book The Power of the Heart
"In
Falling Down and Getting Up, Mark Nepo shares a lifetime of
hard-earned wisdom through his moving, heart-warming vignettes that
are like songs for the soul taking us home to ourselves. Like a jazz
virtuoso, Mark weaves his poetry and teachings to move gently, yet
persistently, into your blood and bones as he helps us move from the
fear of pain and suffering to the rebirth of ever getting back up as
we learn and grow together. I hope you will find a way to read this
book slowly, deeply, and let it nourish you with its gentle, wise and
heart-felt guidance."
— Michael Brant DeMaria, Ph.D.,
four-time Grammy nominated Recording Artist and author of
When All Is Lost
“Once more, I’m inspired as Nepo
hits the perfect note that is needed in these most challenging times.
It’s easy to open one’s heart to his writings because he never
lectures. Rather, he leads us with stories, poetry, metaphors,
significant questions, and lessons he’s gleaned from the wisdom of
authentic teachers. All this has a ring of deep truth. Nepo gives wind
to our sails as we navigate the waters of falling down and getting up.
I recommend this book with unreserved enthusiasm.”
— Justine Willis Toms, co-founder and host of
New Dimensions Radio and author of
Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World
"Mark Nepo returns. Hallelujah! Our ever-enfolding,
always-growing, supremely astute sage of our times sings to us once
again and I couldn’t be happier! Through the comforting beauty of
Falling Down, I felt understood, awakened, and expanded, not
from fantasy but from experiencing, through his words, the deeper
majesty in my everyday life. The majesty that is in all of our
lives. This will be yet another of his masterpieces I will return to,
again and again, to luxuriate in his exquisite expression. You’ll want
to clutch this one close to your heart, to make it a part of you. What
a gift!"
— Kris Ferraro, International Energy Coach, speaker, and Author
of Your Difference is Your Strength, Manifesting, and
the #1 Amazon bestseller Energy Healing
"Amid this
luminous new collection of wisdom, Mark Nepo offers one of the most
robust and tender teachings on grief I have come across. In Mark’s
hands, pain becomes poetry, and enlarges our hearts enough to carry
what we may have thought we couldn’t."
—Mirabai Starr,
author of Caravan of No Despair and
Wild Mercy
"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
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