{"id":6147,"date":"2014-01-23T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/manyvoices\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2020-04-07T19:28:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T19:28:06","slug":"staying-awake-mark-nepo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/blog\/staying-awake-mark-nepo\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying Awake &#8211; with Mark Nepo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us can remember a time when we felt completely awake\u2014fully present, deeply engaged, our heart and mind wide open. We also know those periods of sleepiness when our purpose is unclear, we lose our way in relationship, and life\u2019s challenges seem more than we can bear. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundstrue.com\/shop\/Staying-Awake\/3836.pd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Staying Awake: The Ordinary Art<\/em><\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundstrue.com\/shop\/authors\/Mark_Nepo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Nepo<\/a> invites us to inhabit our truest selves \u201cin all ways in all directions,\u201d as we find our own voices in the One Conversation in which each of our lives is a story waiting to be told.<\/p>\n<p>With a poet\u2019s keen view of the vast and often hidden territory of the inner life, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundstrue.com\/shop\/authors\/Mark_Nepo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Nepo<\/a> talks directly about what a gift it is to be here and about the resources that the mysteries of being and experience reveal. Informed by his journey through cancer, he explores the lessons brought to us by the press of love and suffering. For each of us is born awake and yet it takes courage to stay awake, to remember that all we encounter is real.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing his own rich poetry along with the inspired writing of luminaries across generations, Nepo guides us in the central practice of staying awake: to be who we are, no matter what we face, and to enter our days and moments to the fullest. We do this, he teaches, by holding nothing back\u2014by bringing all of who we are to every situation, enlivening our connection with everything life has to offer. Using teaching stories and a series of exercises and reflections, Nepo invites us to listen to our own stories and to find our own wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy this short video from Mark on staying awake.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mark Nepo - Staying Awake\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/40252634?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us can remember a time when we felt completely awake\u2014fully present, deeply engaged, our heart and mind wide open. We also know those periods of sleepiness when our purpose is unclear, we lose our way in relationship, and life\u2019s challenges seem more than we can bear. 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