The Book of Awakening provides small doses of what really matters: simple truths and stories from everyday lives, plus inspiration from the great wisdom traditions. Each day's entry is accompanied by commonplace yet profound practices, designed to help us live the life we want by being present to the life we have.

There was one book that transformed my life and that book is The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo. The river of life is wide and the journey we make together is made so much more beautiful, important, and moving when our lives are linked by this book.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis, from the Foreword

Designed as a companion and soul-friend, this is a book of marvels woven from the author's own story, stories of others' struggles with their humanness, and truths from the great wisdom traditions. Each entry is a work of art, accompanied by a practice that makes for a completely original call to awaken the mind and the senses.

Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over thirty years. A cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship.