“我很珍视这本睿智的书中所提供的智慧和实践。”
----米拉贝·斯塔尔（Mirabai Starr），《没有绝望的大篷车》（Caravan of No Despair）和《狂野的慈悲》（Wild Mercy）的作者
马克·尼波（Mark Nepo）写道：“有意义的艺术、经久不衰的艺术——以及它所唤醒的变革过程——让我们生生不息。”通过《畅饮光之河》，这位著有畅销作品的诗人和哲学家将带领你探索艺术和真实表达如何将我们最深刻的真理带到这个世界。
这本书由相互关联的散文和诗歌组成，涵盖了各种主题，如与其他生命形式保持对话的重要性，以及马蒂斯（Matisse）、罗丹（Rodin）和贝多芬（Beethoven）等创新者如何看待世界等。尼波为我们每个人心中涌动的创作冲动献上了一曲抒情颂歌。《畅饮光之河》从寻找揭示生命之美的隐喻，以及捕捉瞬间的笔触等，探讨了“超越艺术界限，让观者与参与者合二为一”的意义。
在这本书中，你会发现：
坦诚接纳自己全部情感的重要性
教育需要原始的诚实和自我探索
为什么与新的视角总是只差“四分之一个转角”
与其他创造性声音保持对话的重要性
给予关注与获得关注的关键区别
尊重同行评审的具体准则
引导你内心深处的声音和宇宙的声音意味着什么
用尼波的话说，“这本书是用来体验和陪伴的。”《畅饮光之河》包括数十种日记形式的提示和个人实践，旨在激发读者的创造本能，追寻最本质的自我，以及表达生命意义的重要性，见证生命的悲伤、深度和喜悦。
目录：
The River of Light The Gift of Vision
The Life of Expression What It Means to See
The Origins
PART 1 BASIC HUMAN TRUTHS The Purpose of Will
Why Write The Unexpected Dimension
The Thread We Relate More Than We Author
The Necessary Art Keeping the World Together
The Unexpected Utterance
A Lifelong Process The Art of Perception
Yearning to Be What It Means to Perceive
Lifting Veils To See One Thing in Another
The Web of Metaphor Stacks of Wheat
The Aperture of Intuition
Releasing the Divine Understanding Practice
The Craft of Perception Placeholders
When the Work Comes Alive
The Chord in Our Heart The Monkey and the River
As a Tuning Fork The Practice before the Practice
The Inner Experience of Truth Going with the Stream
Life Marks Us Up Everything We Need
Feelings Are Paints
The Energy of Hope PART 4 BECOMING ONE WITH
Fitting Things Together The Magic of Liberty
Slipping Through
PART 2 BEING SHAPED BY LIFE Living in the Gap
Unraveling the Self Becoming the Poem
The Riddle of a Self The Empty Saddle
Love at First Sight
Living a Making The Timeless River
What Matters Comes Slowly
Bearing Witness The Table Between Presence and Meaning
Looking at Life Together Peering from the Edge
The Power of Art The Wind Phone
Drifting in the Immensity This Belongs to Everyone
Listening
Gratitudes
The Instrument That Is You Notes
What Is Voice? Permissions
The Quarter Turn About the Author
The Inner Critic
Diving Down and Coming Up
Love Your Window
PART 3 THE DEEPER WE GO
Breaking Surface
The Endless Search
Venetian Interior
A Word about Effort
Giving and Getting Attention
Not Great but True
Staying Close to What Is Sacred
Pulling Threads
Travel and the Writer’s Mind