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Mark is a bestselling author, teacher, and speaker whose work focuses on personal awakening and creative excellence through self-inquiry and life writing. He brings three decades of experience as a memoirist, editor, interviewer, survivor, activist, and spiritual seeker to his penetrating and thought provoking work with students. His workshops, classes, and mentoring have inspired thousands of people around the world to reach their artistic and personal goals.
Mark strives to guide his readers on their own personal journey as they search within themselves for their own truths. Mark has appeared around the world as a teacher, scholar and spiritual guide assisting those who are searching to further their own personal growth.Personal awakening is a process and no overnight matter. The process includes self-searching, unfolding and ultimately release. The process of growth can be difficult but the rewards of self-actualization are indescribable.
Mark Matousek

What's Your Story? GIFT CARD with Mark Matousek
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This Gift Card can be purchased and sent to anyone to download this program as a gift. Once the person receiving the gift receives the email, all she or he has to do is add the product to the shopping cart. Here is the link to the product description: http://www.betterlisten.com/collections/mark-matousek/products/whatsyourstory. Then, when the...

What's Your Story with Mark Matousek
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Every life is a work of fiction. We construct our personal myth from the random facts that life presents us, connecting dots to make a shape, devising plots from circumstance, changing characters, fashioning conflicts, adjusting structure, settings, and themes, as our lives unfold over time. “What’s Your Story?” is a fascinating investigatio...

Seekers Forum Complete Collection with Mark Matousek
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How do you live an awakened life? In these 14 inspirational talks from The Seekers Forum, best selling author and teacher Mark Matousek provides a contemporary roadmap to everyday wisdom for spiritual seekers. Exploring topics that include Fear and Desire, Beginner’s Mind, Passion and Abandon, and Awakening Genius, these intimate lectures ...

Life Unplugged with Mark Matousek
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Do you make time to remove yourself from the rat race? Time for leisure, pleasure, letting go, drawing outside the margins, and cultivating irresponsibility? Our lives are far too responsible. We're entirely too grown up too much of the time, and unplugging is a chance to play, live younger, and as statistics say, live longer. "We are poor, ind...

Beginner's Mind with Mark Matousek
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Beginner’s mind is an open mind, a ready mind. Invention, imagination, and creativity abound when we let go of what we know and allow ourselves to look at each moment, thing, and experience as if we are witnessing it for the first time. What if, rather than convincing ourselves that we’ve “been there and done that,” we become open to the truth t...

Waking from the Trance of Struggle with Mark Matousek
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Do you find yourself longing for a simpler life in which the person you are today is already more than enough? How many steps do you place between you and your aspirations? Struggle can become a way of grinding our wheels, stopping us from any forward movement – physically, emotionally, and spiritually. If we believe that the only thing that kee...

Wisdom of Insecurity with Mark Matousek
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The Wisdom of Insecurity Although we're taught to believe that insecurity is something to be avoided, the more open you are to the truth of insecurity, the stronger you become. Remembering that nothing is secure sets you free. Every moment becomes more vivid because you are paying attention. Recognizing the fragility of life can make it immeasu...

In Praise of Idleness with Mark Matousek
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Have you ever explored the virtues of non-doing, the pleasures of non-productivity, the joys of ‘dolce far niente’ – the “sweetness of doing nothing?” Can you take a break without feeling guilty or remorseful? The act of slowing down time carries enormous importance in our lives, adding PAUSE to our days typically filled with PUSH, PUSH, PUSH. E...

Passion and Abandon with Mark Matousek
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Passion is the lifeblood of a creative existence. How does it operate in your current life and where might you be tamping it down, missing out on opportunities for increased enjoyment and personal freedom? Passion and Abandon explores the topics of pleasure, surrender, self-trust, repression, risk, and our attitudes toward the desires and passio...

The Treasure That is Already Here with Mark Matousek
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Many of us search outside of ourselves for validation because we fail to see our worth or our own capacity for enlightenment. We imagine ourselves to be poor, incomplete, and unworthy. When we stop seeking value outside of ourselves and turn our sight inward, we begin to see what we already possess in abundance. You only have to look for it. Loo...

The Question of Meaning with Mark Matousek
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Our lives are defined, and saved, by the quest for meaning. The ability to identify our particular purpose–our unique significance as individuals – determines not only the quality of our lives but, during difficult times, our very survival. Rather than encourage the personal quest for meaning, ours is a culture that emphasizes chasing power outs...

Self Reinvention with Mark Matousek
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Dostoyevsky called man “the animal that can adapt to anything.” But instead of remembering this, we often make our life choices by default, taking the easy or well-traveled path, obeying the voices of practicality and conformity, over the siren call of freedom. Clarity, focus and truth-telling are the only spotlights strong enough to dispel the ...

Real Life Spirituality with Mark Matousek
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What is spirituality? How can we live a spiritual life and maintain a regular practice while dealing with things like money, relationships, career, and ambition? It’s easy to have love for humanity when you’re sitting on a cushion in a monastery, but when you are in the world, it gets a lot more complicated. Our teachings are put to the test dai...

Ethical Wisdom for Friends with Mark Matousek
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As the saying goes, “You can’t pick your family, but you can pick your friends.” But, friendship is a more complicated, subtle and sensitive affair than we tend to think. Since friends are not lovers or family, we often put them in this middle distance. Our expectation levels surrounding friends can be a bit nebulous, and often, so is the way we...

Fear and Desire with Mark Matousek
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What do you fear? What do you desire? These two responses often closely related. Our fearless larger self wants to change, grow, and expand. However, the ego is terrified of transformation. The human dilemma is that we’re very often divided against ourselves. This conflict is the source of much suffering and confusion. Why is it that we so often...

Awakening Genius with Mark Matousek
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Each of us is born with a unique gift, an authentic voice waiting to be heard. Regardless of the work you do–artist or housewife, bus driver or entrepreneur–this creative power is your genius. Once you learn to tap into this power, and tell the truth about who you are, your life can be transformed. Find your connection between desire, creativity...