Podcasts about reduced to joy

For those who know Mark Nepo's work he needs no introduction. For those who are not yet familiar with his work, Mark Nepo has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” “a consummate storyteller,” and “an eloquent spiritual teacher.” A bestselling author, he has published twenty-three books and recorded sixteen audio projects. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Recent work includes Surviving Storms (St. Martin's Essentials, 2020) and Drinking from the River of Light, a Nautilus Award Winner (Sounds True, 2019). I have been following Mark's work for over 30 years. Yet, I first connected with him when my music was used on his two audio programs for Sounds True, Reduced To Joy, and Inside The Miracle. Since then I have had the honor and privilege of being part of a number of his mentoring circles for authentic living. Mark has a unique capacity to bring the inevitable complexities, challenges and inherent paradoxes of life into an intimate, clear and accessible focus through the power of story, metaphor and his timeless poetry. In this episode, we dive into his most recent book, "Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity". It's as all of his books a powerful, deeply intimate read about becoming truly ourselves in times of adversity, challenges and suffering. Today, more than ever, Mark's timeless wisdom is a welcome healing balm and lantern to light our way through the dark. Mark's Main Website: https://marknepo.com/ Marks Website for Live Webinars: https://live.marknepo.com/ 04:52 The Basic Chords Under Everything 06:24 Between The Song of Life and The Pain of Life 07:57 Exhausted Open To the Joy and Pain of Living 09:30 The Everyday Broken Hallelujah 12:31 The Liminal Space of Being Born Premature 16:00 Losing the Connection to the Chords Under Everything - Our Primal Home 16:30 Where is Your Soul At Home 20:57 The Essential Paradoxes of Life 21:40 Whales and Dolphins as Examples of Solitude and Relationship 24:00 Our Direct Connection and Reverence for Life 24:45 Presence and Depth of MY Truth vs. Relationships and Truth Beyond My Own 25:50 The Gifts and Liabilities of Solitude and Relationship 26:30 The Maturing of Compassion - Staying Open To Your Pain Without Losing Yourself 28:00 Un-individuated Love and Codependency 28:39 We Have the Switch To Our Own Light, Not Others 30:00 Through Suffering and Loving We Find Our Inner Light 31:00 Being a Greenhouse for Each Others 34:00 Dealing with Paradox by Stepping Back To See the Wider View 35:00 The Hawk and The Horse - Balancing Revelation and Step by Step Living 39:00 Letting our Soul Catch Up With Us 42:00 Circles for Authentic Living 43:00 Progress vs Incarnation (doing for others AND seeing for myself) 46:00 Breaking Codependence (Extension of Suffering vs. Being a Resource for another Suffering) 48:00 Not Avoiding Suffering and Becoming a Hand Carved Flute 49:00 Being Fully Carved Open Like a Flute 50:00 Everyone Has a Gift Which Gives Us The Capacity to Live Life to The Fullest

Poet, spiritual thinker and author of Seven Thousand Ways to Listen, Nepo explores the many ways that deep listening is a matter of being changed by leaning into all we don't understand. Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us. He describes this kind of listening as "a process by which what matters moves between us." He is the author of many books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013) and More Together Than Alone: Discovering the Power and Spirit of Community in Our Lives and in the World (Atria Books 2018) Interview Date: 12/6/2013     Tags: MP3, Mark Nepo, giving and receiving, deep listening, what matters, personal mythology, web of relationship, friendship, witnessed, trust, paradox, Beethoven, outwaiting the clouds, truth, ocean, eternity, endure and endear, beauty, John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn, John Paul Lederach, Personal Transformation, Health & Healing, Self Help 

Many gems of wisdom unfold here such as, “Being spiritual is inhabiting our humanness so thoroughly that the part of the universe that lives in me comes out and connects with the part of the universe that lives with you.” Other topics discussed are: being present and being absent as well as considering the difference between what we stand for and what we stand on. Mark Nepo is a poet, philosopher and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey’s The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013), Seven Thousand Ways To Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012), The One Life We’re Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016), The Way Under the Way: The Place of True Meeting (Sounds True 2016), Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression (Sounds True 2019), The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters (St. Martin’s Essentials 2020)Interview Date: 1/14/2020     Tags: MP3, Mark Nepo, wholehearted, halfhearted, integral, integrity, values, Wizard of Oz, presence, absence, listening, illusion, maya, circles, Friedrich Nietzsche, Japanese dog named Hachikō, belief, immersion, excellence, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Chinese philosopher, Mencius, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Philosophy, Psychology

Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey's The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013), Seven Thousand Ways To Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012), The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016), The Way Under the Way: The Place of True Meeting (Sounds True 2016), Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression (Sounds True 2019) and The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters (St. Martin's Essentials 2020)Interview Date: 1/14/2020         Tags: MP3, Mark Nepo, wisdom, quest for wisdom, joy, curiosity, wonder, sage, Naropa, embodied wisdom, Martin Heidegger, Nazis, being hypocritical, sphere of influence, shortcomings, The awakened teacher within, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Philosophy, Psychology

Nepo’s creative works, books, poems, workshops are all about creating a sacred place where the experience of honest truth can happen. Even in our deepest moments of suffering, he encourages us to seek out slivers of light seeping through the broad slats of darkness. His genius is to discover metaphors as a way of understanding and making meaning of our lives. Mark Nepo is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013), Seven Thousand Ways To Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012), The One Life We’re Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016), The Way Under the Way: The Place of True Meeting (Sounds True 2016) and Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression (Sounds True 2019)Interview Date: 8/10/2019         Tags: Mark Nepo, metaphors, cancer, grief, Gail Warner, Pine Manor Retreat Center, Doc Palmer, creativity, immersion, whales and dolphins, suffering, telling stories, Rilke, being present, ambition and dreams, making plans, Winston Churchill, assumptions, conclusions, Pandora music app, George Bernard Shaw’s tailor, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Writing, Art & Creativity, Philosophy

Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey's The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship.He is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013), Seven Thousand Ways To Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012), The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016), The Way Under the Way: The Place of True Meeting (Sounds True 2016), Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression (Sounds True 2019)Interview Date: 8/10/2019          Tags: MP3, Mark Nepo, making a living as a poet, poetry, metaphors, waves and undertows, fish breathing with gills, inner spiritual practice, naming things, the three friendships, wisdom of source, river of experience, friendship with each other, personal expression, perfection, Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Writing, Philosophy, Art & Creativity

Mark Nepo is an author, poet, philosopher, beloved teacher and cancer survivor who has, for thirty years, been exploring how we can stay awake and authentic when our wounds make us numb and hidden; how we can minimize what stands between us and our experience of life; how we can create a practice that wears down what thickens around our hearts and minds. And today we are going to talk to him about those very things, as we explore together the meanings and messages of his books, The Endless Practice and Reduced to Joy. The Endless Practice explores 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 who we were born to be. Reduced to Joy is a book of poems about the nature of working with what we are given until it wears us through to joy. This is a special opportunity to come closer to your own soul. Don't miss it.

Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who, for over three decades, has been teaching in the fields of poetry and spirituality. As a cancer survivor, Mark remains committed to the usefulness of daily inner life. He devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He is the author of many books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013), Seven Thousand Ways To Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012) and The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016). His many audio learning courses include: Staying Awake (Sounds True 2012), Holding Nothing Back (Sounds True 2012), More Together Than Alone: Discovering the Power and Spirit of Community in Our Lives and in the World (Atria Books 2018)Tags: Mark Nepo, fear, divisiveness, courage, isolation, authenticity, scarcity, abundance, the Great Depression, storytelling, Muriel Rukeyser, Oprah Winfrey, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Tutu, social aneurysms, optimism, Parkland Florida, compassion, Psychology, Philosophy, community, Personal Transformation, Buddhism, Social Change/Politics, Peace/Nonviolence

Often, what keeps us from joy is the menacing assumption that life is happening other than where we are. For years, I’ve been trying to explore and understand: How can we remember we are of one human family? How can we stay awake and authentic when our wounds make us numb and hidden? How can we minimize what stands between us and our experience of life? How can we make a practice of wearing down what thickens around our mind and heart? -Mark Nepo Listen to an insightful and delightful yoga podcast with Mark Nepo, spiritual writer, poet, philosopher, healing arts teacher, and cancer survivor. Mark speaks about his newest book of poetry, Reduced to Joy, his journey towards healing from cancer, joy, and the practices that can help keep us authentic, connected, and conscious of the Universal love that binds us all together.

The Call to Courage and Joy Mark Nepo is a poet, philosopher, speaker, and author of 15 books, including the No. 1 New York Times best-seller The Book of Awakening. You've seen him with Oprah on Super Soul Sunday and in her live events, and on Good Morning America with Robin Roberts. He joins us on The Soul-Directed Life to talk about how leaning into life as it is—not as we want it to be—takes courage, yes, but also uncovers the startling truth: In the end we are all Reduced to Joy.  

Mark Nepo is an author, poet, philosopher, beloved teacher and cancer survivor who has, for thirty years, been exploring how we can stay awake and authentic when our wounds make us numb and hidden; how we can minimize what stands between us and our experience of life; how we can create a practice that wears down what thickens around our hearts and minds. And today we are going to talk to him about those very things, as we explore together the meanings and messages of his books, The Endless Practice and Reduced to Joy. The Endless Practice explores 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 who we were born to be. Reduced to Joy is a book of poems about the nature of working with what we are given until it wears us through to joy. This is a special opportunity to come closer to your own soul. Don't miss it.

CITED BY SPIRITUALITY & PRACTICE AS ONE OF THE BEST SPIRITUAL BOOKS OF 2013 Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark Nepo, 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.  Now in his sixties, he is publishing Reduced to Joy, a book of seventy-three poems, retrieved and shaped over the last thirteen years, about the nature of working with what we're given till it wears us through to joy.  About joy, Nepo says, "Often, what keeps us from joy is the menacing assumption that life is happening other than where we are." Of the book, he says, "Poetry is the well from which all my books rise.  It's where I always go to listen, always stunned by what arrives.  It's how I know the inner world.  I bring these poems back from the deep like shells from the sea that we can look at together." Profound and accessible, Nepo's poems are tools for staying close to what matters.

Poems for transformation and awakening, with best-selling author Mark Nepo.

Join Lisa as she speaks with acclaimed poet Mark Nepo about the journey of life, how we feel about aging, what it's like to one of Oprah's favorites and what his favorite cereal was growing up. This is a fun, fresh and inspiring interview that is sure to brighten your day.