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...

Poet, philosopher, and cancer survivor Mark Nepo has been breaking a path of spiritual inquiry for more than forty years. In his latest book, the #1 New York Times bestselling author "writes reflectively and poetically about the lifelong spiritual journey" (Publishers Weekly).

Called one of the finest spiritual guides of our time, Nepo explores what it means to become our truest self as we face life's challenges--as well as its joys. Navigating some of the soul's deepest, most ancient questions, he asks: How do we stay vital and buoyant amid the storms of life? What is the...

"I would follow this man anywhere his words want to take us," writes Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, in praise of Mark Nepo and The One Life We're Given. "His voice helps us find pathways where we might have believed that no pathway could possibly exist."

"Mark Nepo is a national treasure," says Rev. Ed Bacon, author of Eight Habits of Love. Now, Nepo--popular spiritual teacher and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awakening--crafts a new road map for the soul's journey. It is "a powerful guide to being in the world...

The Universe holds us and tosses us about, only to hold us again.

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

Readers explore 145 offerings from the acclaimed poet and teacher, gathered into 17 themes, intended to be entered individually or as an unfolding sequence. Here, Mark's own personal accounts of -sinking and being lifted- serve as the...