Podcast Highlight: Mark Matousek

"For me, this became a new reason for living to prove myself "worthy of my sufferings," as novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky described in his own resurrection moment.

There are writers, and then there is Mark Matousek.

No one tells a story like Mark. If you have not read one of his books before I implore you to stop what you are doing right now, and go pick the newly reissued "When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living."

Mark is an unbelievably powerful human being who has spent his life collecting wisdom and sharing it with us. And we are so lucky.

In our interview this Mark talks about the listening audience about his tumultuous childhood and how at the age of 8 he began inquiring within himself--deep questions about life, suffering, and meaning.

One day his sister came to him and asked "How do you live?" having suffered much in her human life and wanting to understand the simple complexity of the human experience that can feel like an ocean swell. Mark answers this question through his examination of the lives and experiences of sages, wise men and women, and spiritual titans. 

Mark stepped on the edge of deaths door in his life journey too.

But instead of it breaking him or succumbing to the weight of everything he faced he was determined to not lose the lessons of what coming face to face with ones own mortality and being pulled back into the freshness of life again.

He said:

"For me, this became a new reason for living to prove myself "worthy of my sufferings," as novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky described in his own resurrection moment.

May we all be worthy of our suffering. 

Thank you Mark, for coming to the show, for living brilliantly, and lighting a path for seekers.