Mark Nepo: Writing Is Listening with Your Heart and Taking Notes

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Mark Nepo is a New York Times bestselling author, poet, and philosopher whose many books include The Book of Awakening, Things That Join the Sea and the Sky, and The One Life We're Given. Most recently, he has partnered with Sounds True to publish Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Mark about about our collective notions around creativity and the societal role of art. Mark details how his own ideas about creative expression have shifted over the decades, as well as why we should try to separate creation from commerce. Mark and Tami talk about the "messy, magnificent journey" of being human and why art must be a "witness to what is." Finally, they discuss the necessity of holding nothing back during the creative process and why the pursuit of art is also the pursuit of timelessness.(71 minutes)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True.
0:04.0	My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True.
0:08.0	And I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation.
0:12.0	The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available. We want everyone to have access to
0:26.8	transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:39.3	The Sounds True Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to
0:46.0	communities in need including at-risk youth prisoners, veterans, and those in
0:52.3	developing countries.
0:54.0	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter,
0:58.4	please visit sounds true foundation.org. Or.
1:04.0	You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:10.0	Today my guest is Mark Nepo.
1:13.0	Mark Nepo is a poet, philosopher, and the author of more than 20 books,
1:18.0	who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over 35 years. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching
1:28.8	to the journey of the inner transformation and the life of relationship.
1:34.0	With sounds true, Mark has published the award-winning,
1:38.0	things that join the sea and sky,
1:41.0	and a new book called Drinking from the River of Light, the Life of Expression.
1:48.0	Mark Nepo is one of the most prolific transformational writers that I know.
1:54.8	And in this conversation, he shares why.
1:58.0	Not because he's writing about what he knows, but because he's writing about what is alive for him in his experience and in his heart
2:09.2	at the moment what's alive that he wants to explore further.
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