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Electromagnetic Man with Steve Lopez: Episode 267
Episode 267 Electromagnetic Man with Steve LopezSteve Lopez is a man determined to live life on his own terms. While he is humble about his knowledge and his ambitions, he is well-read and has a clear vision for his life - living far from civilization, and especially...
The Law of the Instrument: Episode 266
Episode 266 The Law of the InstrumentThe law of the instrument is a bias towards the tools which are available, or the ones we are trained in. In Maslow’s famous formulation, he states “if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”...
Seek and Ye Shall Find: Episode 265
Episode 265 Seek and Ye Shall FindIn the famous Bible verse, we are encouraged to ask, seek and knock, to have our prayers answered. Sometimes it is enough to ask, and sometimes we need to seek and knock. In another now obsolete expression, it was said that “An ounce...
Inbetween Spaces: Episode 264
Episode 264 Inbetween SpacesOnce Kurt found himself in a Thai immigration office, about 30km outside of Saraburi, looking for a place to get a passport photo, with no taxis or tuk tuks around. It wasn’t clear which way would get to a photoshop quicker, but there were...
Surrender to Faith: Episode 263
Episode 263 Surrender to FaithBefore beginning a journey, we might pray that we stay safe throughout, and that the purpose of the trip is fulfilled. Then we can go one step beyond, and pray that we will learn a great spiritual lesson in the process. In that initial...
Greater Spiritual Development: Episode 261
Episode 261 Greater Spiritual DevelopmentIn the Catholic tradition, there are three types of prayer: praise, gratitude and petition. When we put ourselves to prayer for petition, we might ask for something specific, or something a little more vague. The truth is, we...
Addicted to Thinking: Episode 260
Episode 260 Addicted to ThinkingIn our meditation, or in our daily lives, when we exercise presence we might quickly become aware that our mind produces thought after thought, a never ending train of thoughts. They seem to demand our attention, and we might get...
Showered with Love: Episode 259
Episode 259 Showered with LoveMany times when people pay us a compliment, we might stop and add conditions, or say “I’m not that great.” We might even forget to say “thank you” before we dismiss the nice thing that was said. Likewise, if someone expresses love for us,...
Dust in the Wind: Episode 258
Episode 5 Jump AroundIn the famous song by Kansas, we hear “All we are is dust in the wind” and “Everything is dust in the wind.” The lyrics are evocative of Solomon’s words in the book of Ecclesiastes: “All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the...
The Thought Buffet: Episode 256
Episode 256 The Thought Buffet In one chapter of You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay invites us to imagine a grand buffet of all kinds of thoughts. Just like with food, some thoughts will cause us pain, and some thoughts will provide nourishment, enabling us greater...
The Seed of Greatness: Episode 255
Episode 255 The Seed of GreatnessIn Toward A Psychology of Being, our Teacher Abraham Maslow writes: “He who belies his talent, the born painter who sells stockings instead, the intelligent man who lives a stupid life, the man who sees the truth and keeps his mouth...
That Positive Part of You: Episode 254
Episode 254 That Positive Part of YouThis inner nature, as much as we know of it so far, seems not to be intrinsically evil, but rather either neutral or positively “good.” What we call evil behavior appears most often to be a secondary reaction to frustration of this...
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