Facing the Lion, Being the Lion: Finding Inner Courage Where It Lives
by Nepo, MarkFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-10-30
Publisher(s): Red Wheel/Weiser
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Summary
Facing the Lion, Being the Lion is work from the heart that helps us find our own courage and experience how connection to our own core connects us to all of humankind, as well as to nature and spirit itself. Nepo invites us to encounter the stories of ordinary people, political activists, artists, and spiritual teachers from all traditions--people who are summoning the best of who they are in all kinds of moments, great and small. This book empowers us to take those moments into our own hearts, to be inspired by them, to let them fill our lungs and circle our hearts, empowered to stand more firmly by our own core and a little taller in the world.
Table of Contents
| To My Reader | p. 10 |
| Facing the Lion | p. 15 |
| Wings of the Butterfly | p. 16 |
| Vengeance or Music | p. 20 |
| Wrestling with God | p. 24 |
| Letting the Story Unfold | p. 29 |
| The Boy and the Drum | p. 32 |
| The Swan and the Tailor | p. 36 |
| Loving What You Fear | p. 42 |
| Living within Patterns | p. 48 |
| How We Stumble | p. 54 |
| The Three Dangers | p. 59 |
| Facing Ourselves | p. 64 |
| The Life of the Lion | p. 68 |
| Facing Each Other | p. 74 |
| Sympathetic Fibers | p. 78 |
| The Art of Encouragement | p. 85 |
| Standing by One's Core | p. 91 |
| The Heart of It | p. 97 |
| God of the Broken Tusk | p. 99 |
| The Heart's Blossom | p. 106 |
| A Sacred Becoming | p. 111 |
| Being the Lion | p. 113 |
| Fires Looking for a Sea | p. 114 |
| Aliveness and Woundedness | p. 117 |
| Everything or Nothing | p. 121 |
| The Fall into Life | p. 126 |
| Four in the Morning | p. 132 |
| Between the Tiger and the Dragon | p. 136 |
| What Gets in the Way | p. 140 |
| Near Enemies | p. 147 |
| Tendencies | p. 150 |
| Believing the Guest | p. 155 |
| There Is Something Else There | p. 159 |
| Wholeheartedness | p. 165 |
| Beginner's Heart | p. 169 |
| Trust of This Kind | p. 172 |
| Building on the Past | p. 178 |
| Tensions of Awakening | p. 185 |
| Breaking Patterns | p. 193 |
| In the Middle of the Path | p. 198 |
| Inner Courage and Where It Lives | p. 201 |
| The Interior Blessing | p. 202 |
| The Secret Life of Detail | p. 205 |
| Our Fierce Impulse to Live | p. 208 |
| The Art of Facing Things | p. 213 |
| The Work of Self-Return | p. 218 |
| Burning the Raft | p. 221 |
| Giving Up What No Longer Works | p. 226 |
| Judgment or Compassion | p. 230 |
| Experiments with Love | p. 236 |
| The Gateway: Acceptance | p. 239 |
| Sniffing Out What Is Sacred | p. 243 |
| To Be a Clear Vessel | p. 246 |
| Ways of Living | p. 251 |
| The Beauty of It | p. 256 |
| A Myth of Encouragement | p. 264 |
| What Is Necessary | p. 267 |
| Humility and Awe | p. 273 |
| Beginning Again | p. 275 |
| Gratitudes | p. 278 |
| Notes | p. 280 |
| About the Author | p. 303 |
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