Holding Nothing Back: Essentials for an Authentic Life (2CDs)

Sounds True, Louisville, CO, February 2012

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AUDIO PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The bestselling author of The Book of Awakening helps listeners engage the obstacles to experiencing a fullness of life and in so doing opens the practice of expressing our true selves. This 2CD box set includes the first third of the longer, more comprehensive 6CD box set, Staying Awake: The Ordinary Art.

Mysteriously, holding nothing back is the inner requisite to experiencing Oneness. All the spiritual traditions affirm that fully participating in our own life is what allows us to find our place in the fullness and beauty of the world. As such, holding nothing back is less a forceful act of will and more a surrender into the current of life we are always in. In the journey of Holding Nothing Back, poet, philosopher, and bestselling author Mark Nepo invites you to enliven the one obligation we are born with: to be completely who you are which in turn will, if blessed, awaken you to the mystery of the Oneness in everything.

Speaking directly from the heart, one soul to another, Mark Nepo inspires us to inhabit a life of authentic expression that will help us let go of fear and enter the great risk of living wholly. Our reward is nothing less than the realization that "all of life is in whatever moment we wake to." Among other topics, Holding Nothing Back illuminates:

The Fall into Life—our inevitable journey into what is real, and how we only find meaning through relationship
Alone and Together—the paradox of being and belonging and how we need both solitude and community
Effort and Grace—how to steer the soul with the oars of will and surrender

"To hold nothing back in every breath means staying committed to letting whatever we experience make its way in and letting whatever is in make its way out," explains Nepo. "Holding nothing back means holding the intention to be an open vessel, in a daily way."