Exquisite Risk Daring to Live an Authentic Life

Name: Exquisite Risk Daring to Live an Authentic Life
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ISBN: 9780307335845

ISBN-10: 0307335844

ISBN-13: 9780307335845

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Authors: Mark Nepo

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In these fast-paced times, the exquisite risk facing each of us every day is to slow down and “still our own house” so that we may experience life rather than simply manage it. In The Exquisite Risk, poet and teacher Mark Nepo encourages readers to become quiet enough and open enough to listen to what truly matters—our own hearts, our loved ones, the wonders of nature—in order to live a life with nothing held back. In rich, lyrical prose, Nepo shares his own spiritual path, including a battle with illness that helped him understand how only by daring to embrace all that life has to offer can we come to a deeper appreciation of its meaning and beauty. In the spirit of works by Deepak Chopra…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Publication date: 2/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.220
Language: English



Opening the Gift



There Are Teachers Everywhere


Listening to the Voice Inside


The Practice of Being Human


The Nature of the Dance


The Exquisite Risk


The Strange Storyteller


You Must Reverse the Haiku


The Work of Love


Fame and Peace


The Drama of Our Bleeding


The Struggle to Be Real


The Chance to Form Inwardly


A Sincere Life


Holding Nothing Back


Unrehearsed Living


There Are Teachers Everywhere



Steering Our Way to Center


Living with the Sacred


Steering Our Way to Center


The Mystery of Energy


The Fact of Our Oneness


We Like Cheetahs


Unfolding in the World


Giving and Getting Attention


Befriending the Whole


Passion and Desire


Practicing Change


The Net of Influences


Naked Attention


The Gift of Surprise


The Life of Expression


Falling Down and Getting Up



How Can We Go There Together?


How Can We Go There Together?


The Spoked Wheel


Admitting Who We Are


The Song of Relationship


The Loss of One Brick


The Feather of Truth


The Rhythm of Kindness


The Eyes of the Deep


The Koan of Love


The Kinship of Gratitude


The Stripping of Our Will


Waking Close to the Bone


Tell Me You Have Come



Honoring the Mystery


Honoring the Mystery


Things As They Are


Heaven on Earth


At the Pace of What Is Real


In Flawed Abundance


The Mysterious Press of Oneness


Chores


We Become the Earth


Being and Feeling


Going Beyond


Entering the Days


Waiting for Light


The Gift and the Saddle


Notes


Gratitudes


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