Falling Down and Getting Up

Discovering Your Inner Resilience and Strength

By: Mark Nepo

Narrated by: Mark Nepo

Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

Falling Down and Getting Up is an invitation to view adversity from a new perspective. In this gentle, insightful guide, Mark Nepo helps listeners navigate the challenges of life by transforming their experience into a chance for deepening and renewal.

Each one of us is offered opportunities to choose between surviving and thriving, managing risk and enhancing risk, opening and closing, giving and receiving, living a balance between solitude and community. We can choose to enlarge our sense of things when pain and fear make us small. We can choose to delight in the never-ending practice of course-correcting and tuning as we go. Falling Down and Getting Up introduces listeners to their own gifts and wisdom, helping them explore the perennial practices and choice-points we all face in life.

Mark Nepo is a master teacher who has been convening circles and guiding retreats for fifty years all over the world. Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, he has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” “a consummate storyteller,” and “an eloquent spiritual teacher.” Filled with humble insights and wise words, Falling Down and Getting Up will encourage and inspire listeners from every walk of life.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press Essentials.

©2023 Mark Nepo (P)2023 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

"Drawn from Mark Nepo's many years of teaching, this book offers a transformative journey that helps us to connect with and explore the eternal part of ourselves—our spiritual nature, our essence. Falling down is part of the human journey, but Mark shows us how it can become a path of spiritual transformation. In this book, Mark unfolds the courage that can befriend us in learning the dance of falling down and getting up with grace."—Baptist de Pape, author of the book The Power of the Heart

"In Falling Down and Getting Up, Mark Nepo shares a lifetime of hard-earned wisdom through his moving, heart-warming vignettes that are like songs for the soul taking us home to ourselves. Like a jazz virtuoso, Mark weaves his poetry and teachings to move gently, yet persistently, into your blood and bones as he helps us move from the fear of pain and suffering to the rebirth of ever getting back up as we learn and grow together. I hope you will find a way to read this book slowly, deeply, and let it nourish you with its gentle, wise and heart-felt guidance." Michael Brant DeMaria, Ph.D., four-time Grammy nominated Recording Artist and author of When All Is Lost

“Once more, I’m inspired as Nepo hits the perfect note that is needed in these most challenging times. It’s easy to open one’s heart to his writings because he never lectures. Rather, he leads us with stories, poetry, metaphors, significant questions, and lessons he’s gleaned from the wisdom of authentic teachers. All this has a ring of deep truth. Nepo gives wind to our sails as we navigate the waters of falling down and getting up. I recommend this book with unreserved enthusiasm.”—Justine Willis Toms, co-founder and host of New Dimensions Radio and author of Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World

Lovely person to listen to

This was my first exposure to this author and this book will take you on a journey into compassion, self love and authenticity.