Mark Nepo

As a poet and philosopher, Mark Nepo (The Book of Awakening) has been breaking a path of spiritual inquiry for more than thirty years.  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 the person w

Mark Nepo, also author of The Book of Awakening, has a singular way of distilling great truths down to their essence. Moreover, Nepo attributes his comeback from cancer to the power of the writing process and not once but twice.

With Things That Join the Sea and the Sky, Mark Nepo brings us a rich and resonant resource of short prose reflections to turn to when were struggling to keep our heads above water—and to help us surface and breathe into all of our sorrows and joys.

Mark Nepo is a poet, storyteller, best-selling author, spiritual guide, and cancer survivor, but most important, his readers consider him an old friend a soul friend. He was part of Oprah Winfrey's The Life You Want tour and has appeared on her Super Soul Sunday program.

Designed as a companion and soul-friend, this is “a book of awakenings” woven from the author’s own story (cancer survivor, poet, and philosopher: this man has allowed life to flow through him), stories of others’ struggles with their humanness, and truths from the great wisdom traditions.

The word courage comes from the Latin cor (core, heart), Nepo explains in this lovely, heartfelt meditation. “If to find our way to the core is to face the lion, then to stand by our core is to be the lion,” he says.