![]() ![]() Falling Down and Getting Up explores these timeless rhythms and the essential skills needed to fully live our lives." Similarly, a nurse, who prompted me to get up and walk immediately after surgery, announced, "Two steps forward, one step back!" This is the rhythm of life we are asked to accept in order to live. "The Hindu Upanishads offer the image of how a caterpillar bunches up before moving forward as a symbol of this kind of growth. ![]() If you haven't had the chance to sit in one his magical circles, this book is the next best thing. Mark's teaching is committed to introducing his students and readers to their own gifts and wisdom. In essence, how do we learn the dance of falling down and getting up? This book focuses on the individual's transformative journey with all its ups and downs and twists and turns. In fact, each step we take forms a dance of falling down and getting up. From a longer and deeper perspective, falling down and getting up is the inevitable rhythm of transformation. While no one likes to fall down, no one is exempt from this part of the human journey. Drawn from his many years of teaching, this book explores the perennial practices and choice-points we all face such as surviving and thriving, managing risk and enhancing risk, opening and closing, giving and receiving, living a balance between solitude and community, enlarging our sense of things when pain and fear make us small, and the never-ending practice of course-correcting and tuning as we go.įalling Down and Getting Up explores the archetypal rhythm that is inherent to every life in every stage of its growth. Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awakening has been called "one of the finest spiritual guides of our time," "a consummate storyteller," and "an eloquent spiritual teacher." His many books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Mark Nepo is a master teacher who has been convening circles and guiding retreats for fifty years all over the world. ST MARTIN'S ESSENTIAL BOOKS, Sept 5, 2023 The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacyĭiscovering Your Inner Resilience and Strength.Flames That Light the Heart (vidoe course).
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