Finding Inner Courage
Published on 12. September 2025
301 pages
978-1-63341-221-7 (ISBN)
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In this truly inspiring book, Mark Nepo offers us all an invitation to stand by the courage of our convictions in challenging times.Through the stories of ordinary people, political activists, artists, writers, spiritual teachers from a variety of traditions, Mark Nepo shows how we too can discover our own inner courage.Finding Inner Courageis divided into three sections finding our inner core, standing by our inner core, and sustaining the practice of living from that place. Each of the nearly 60 brief essays and stories elucidates and inspires. Nepo's broad range of stories and people, of traditions and insights, offers myriad ways for readers to relate to their own search for courage.
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Mark Nepo has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1New York TimesbestsellerThe Book of Awakening.He has published twenty-two books and recorded fifteen audio projects. In 2015, he was given a Life Achievement Award by AgeNation. In 2016, he was named byWatkins: Mind Body Spiritas one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People, and he was also chosen as one of OWN's SuperSoul 100, a group of inspired leaders using their gifts and voices to elevate humanity. In 2017 Mark became a regular columnist forSpirituality & Healthmagazine. Visit him atwww.marknepo.com.
Content
- Front Cover
- Advance Praise
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- To My Readers
- Movement 1: Facing the Lion
- Wings of the Butterfly
- Vengeance or Music
- Wrestling with God
- Letting the Story Unfold
- The Boy and the Drum
- The Swan and the Tailor
- Loving What You Fear
- Living within Patterns
- How We Stumble
- The Three Dangers
- Facing Ourselves
- The Life of the Lion
- Facing Each Other
- Sympathetic Fibers
- The Art of Encouragement
- Standing by One's Core
- The Heart of It
- God of the Broken Tusk
- The Heart's Blossom
- A Sacred Becoming
- Movement 2: Being the Lion
- Fires Looking for a Sea
- Aliveness and Woundedness
- Everything or Nothing
- The Fall into Life
- Four in the Morning
- Between the Tiger and the Dragon
- What Gets in the Way
- Near Enemies
- Tendencies
- Believing the Guest
- There Is Something Else There
- Wholeheartedness
- Beginner's Heart
- Trust of This Kind
- Building on the Past
- Tensions of Awakening
- Breaking Patterns
- In the Middle of the Path
- Movement 3: Inner Courage and Where It Lives
- The Interior Blessing
- The Secret Life of Detail
- Our Fierce Impulse to Live
- The Art of Facing Things
- The Work of Self-Return
- Burning the Raft
- Giving Up What No Longer Works
- Judgment or Compassion
- Experiments with Love
- The Gateway: Acceptance
- Sniffing Out What Is Sacred
- To Be a Clear Vessel
- Ways of Living
- The Beauty of It
- A Myth of Encouragement
- What Is Necessary
- Humility and Awe
- Beginning Again
- Gratitudes
- Notes
- Copyright Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Back Cover
