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40. Living a life of action β€” and contemplation - Jana Spangler

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Christianity, Ethics, Latter-day Saint, The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints, Mormon, Mormonism, Morality, Lds, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality

4.4 β€’ 1.4K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 23 February 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we speak with Jana Spangler about how to live a contemplative life that's also full of compassionate action. As we've brought more contemplative practices into our own lives, we've found many benefits -- but have wanted to make sure we don't lose any of that drive for compassionate service that our faith has done such a good job teaching us.

07:26 The contemplative tradition of Joseph Smith

12:46 What is the ego?

18:35 Working with those who question

23:21 Moving beyond body and mind

29:20 Serving those who are down

34:57 Combining contemplation and action

43:01 Christ as Healer

Transcript

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Books. Okay that's it on the book for now but we'll be sharing a lot more in the

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near future. Thanks as always and here's the episode.

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Hi and welcome to the Faith Matters podcast,

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this is Aubrey Chavez.

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In this episode we speak with Janus Spangler

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on the intersection of action and contemplation.

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As Tim and I have brought more contemplative practices into our own lives, we've found many benefits,

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but we've wanted to make sure that we don't lose any of that drive for compassionate service that our faith

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has done such a good job teaching.

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Jara is an integral professional life coach with symmetry solutions who specializes in working

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