When You're Falling, Dive
Lessons in the Art of Living, With New Preface
Published on 15. March 2022
209 pages
978-1-948626-58-3 (ISBN)
Description
Why do some people blossom through adversity while others fall apart?
Author Mark Matousek examines this phenomenon by seeking advice from well-known survivors like Joan Didion and Isabel Allende and experts like Jon Kabat-Zinn to show how disasters can be used to awaken and transform us.
From a Sudanese boy slave kidnapped at age seven to a Tibetan nun imprisoned by Chinese militia, Matousek sifts through extraordinary testimonies and recent breakthroughs in neuroscience to demonstrate how we are hardwired to evolve and adapt when faced with the impossible.
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Person
Mark Matousek, M.A. is an award-winning author, teacher, and speaker whose work focuses on transformative writing for personal, professional, and spiritual development. The author of eight books including Ethical Wisdom: The Search for a Moral Life and Writing To Awaken: A Journey of Truth, Transformation, and Self-Discovery, he is a featured blogger for PsychologyToday.com and has contributed to numerous anthologies and publications, including the New Yorker, Details, Harper's Bazaar, The Chicago Tribune, and O: The Oprah Magazine. He is the founder of The Seekers Forum, an online community for non-sectarian spiritual dialogue, and a founding member of V-Men (with Eve Ensler), an organization devoted to ending violence against women and girls. Mark offers workshops in self-inquiry and personal development internationally, using his Writing To Awaken method, which has helps thousands of people around the globe world to reach their artistic and personal goals. He lives in Springs, New York.
Content
- Intro
- Praise for When You're Falling, Dive
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Magical Thinking
- The Roar of Freedom
- The Day of Laughter
- Om Mani Padme Hum
- Dragons at the Gate
- Superman's Ghost
- Home in the World
- The Art of Losing
- A Quarter Inch from Heaven
- The Girl on the Rock
- Going to Tahiti (or Raising Heaven)
- The Net of Indra
- Reinventing Your Wife
- Man Thinks, God Laughs
- Praying
- Demon Lovers
- Questioning (or The Sphinx)
- Je M'en Foutisme
- The Terrorists Within
- Earth Angel
- The End of Seeking (or Dig in One Place)
- Something Else Is Also True
- Pain Passes, but the Beauty Remains
- Hedonics
- Invisible Feast
- Original Blessing
- Enough
- Stress Matters
- The Wounded Healer
- True Confessions
- Prometheus
- Found Art
- Through Wilderness
- A Splinter of Love
- Nakedness
- Killing Peter Pan
- The Water or the Wave?
- What Time Is Good For
- At Sea
- The Mother (or Aloha Oy)
- Rope Burn
- What Makes the Engine Go?
- Notes and Sources
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
