When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living, with New Preface Matousek Mark
When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living, with New Preface Matousek Mark Do survivors of life's greatest trials possess a secret knowledge? Why do some people blossom through adversity…
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When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living, with New Preface Matousek Mark
Do survivors of life's greatest trials possess a secret knowledge? Why do some people blossom through adversity while others stop growing? Is there an art to survival―a map for crossing the wilderness―or daily life?
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. Drawing on twenty years' experience in this field, using stories, parable, and scientific data, acclaimed memoirist Mark Matousek gives the first-ever comprehensive look at this mysterious phenomenon of viriditas, the power of drawing passion, beauty, and wisdom from the unlikeliest places. 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