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When you're falling, dive : lessons in the art of living / Mark Matousek.

by Matousek, Mark.

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Bloomsbury, 2008.

Conduct of life.

Life change events.

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

9781596913691 (hc.)

159691369X (hc.)

9781596913707 (2009 pbk.)

Alternate title:

When you are falling, dive

306 p. : 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

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 Tahit, 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 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?

Using stories, parable, and scientific data, acclaimed memoirist Mark Matousek gives the first-ever comprehensive look at the mysterious phenomenon of viriditas, the power of drawing passion, beauty, and wisdom from the unlikeliest places. Matousek interviews hundreds of well-known survivors, including Joan Didion, Elie Wiesel, and Isabel Allende, and experts such as Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jonathan Kozol, and Sogyal Rimpoche. He includes extraordinary testimonials, from a Tibetan nun imprisoned by the Chinese at age eleven and the women of Calama, Chile, digging for their “disappeared,” among countless others. Drawing insight and advice from these many heroic individuals, Matousek presents a chorus of wisdom for how to survive our own lives, the vicissitudes of being human, and prevail.

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