#522 Loving Your Enemy: A Key to Inner Peace

Happiness Podcast

Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Loving Your Enemy: A Key to Inner Peace

Ever feel weighed down by resentment or anger? In this podcast, we explore the transformative power of forgiveness, even when it seems impossible, focusing on the radical idea of loving your enemy. Join us as we uncover how letting go of grudges can pave the way to lasting happiness and inner peace.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. When I was in high school, I worked at a fast food
0:13.7	restaurant called Hardee's. I've been working there for over a year, and I don't remember
0:18.9	what the manager did, but I remember being very angry at the
0:23.0	manager, and I really did not like him. I just had a lot of resentment towards him, but the truth was
0:30.0	it was hurting me, not him. He didn't know I was angry at him, but I felt so much loathing
0:36.7	towards who he was as a human being, and it
0:39.4	caused me a lot of distress. The town I grew up in was called Storm Lake, and I would often go there
0:45.7	to find peace and tranquility when I was struggling with things. I remember sitting at the lake
0:51.2	just being angry and upset over the manager and the things that I thought at the time he was doing to me.
0:57.6	And I don't remember why, but for some reason I picked up a weed.
1:00.9	It was a very just normal, ugly weed, and I started unraveling it.
1:05.7	It was kind of a reed that you could unravel. It had layers to it.
1:09.7	Well, as I kept unraveling it and unraveling it,
1:12.4	at the very end I got to the center, and there were these two beautiful water droplets.
1:18.4	And then it hit me. This weed that I thought was so ugly had inside of it something very beautiful.
1:25.5	And I made the analogy that my manager, who I was detesting so much at that time,
1:31.0	also had something very beautiful inside of him. And I needed to let my anger go. And I did. And I felt so
1:40.1	much better. The situation at work didn't necessarily change, but my heart changed. And I remember going
1:47.6	to work and there was no anger anymore. And it was just so much better for me. I don't know if you've
1:54.3	ever heard of Richard Albert. He was a psychologist at Harvard and he went by the name Ram Dass, and he wrote a very famous book called Be Here Now.
2:05.2	Over the years, I read quite a bit of his work, and I remember one story that he shared that stuck with me.
2:11.2	He talked about, at the time that he was alive, how he set up a little shrine in his house, and he would go to it, and that's where he would do
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