Best Practices To Open Your Heart and Ease Your Life with Stephen Mitchell, Husband of Byron Katie
Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler
Michael Sandler
4.7 • 974 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
If you've ever wanted to live a more beautiful, peaceful life, then do we have the Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness show for you.
Today I'll be talking with Stephen Mitchell, a brilliant author and interpreter of books including Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf, the co-author of three beautiful books with his wife Byron Katie, and the author of one of the most beautiful reads I've ever had the privilege of coming across, "Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness"
That is just what I want to talk with him about today, about a profound tale to open your heart and ease your life.
Key Points Discussed:
- How to bring more forgiveness into our lives (03:08)
- Has forgiveness always come easy to you? (03:23)
- The inner wisdom that would pull Joseph to do things and that was there for his highest good (10:34)
- The central moment: When Joseph choose not to blame his brothers for throwing him into the pit (12:10)
- The freeing realization that can lift condemnation from ourselves and the rest of the world (17:29)
- What does "May your will be done" mean? (20:57)
- Using God's name as a synonym for reality and getting out of the human image of God (24:31)
- Accepting what is and seeing every situation as the best that could possibly be happening (31:42)
- How everything that appeared to be the worst thing for Joseph actually served him (37:57)
- The many years of intensive Zen practice and practice of "The Work" that changed Stephen's life? (47:36)
- The meaning of "The Great Hymn to the Sun" (58:53)
- How important is it to forgive everyone in our lives? (01:02:58)
To find out more visit:
- https://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Way-Forgiveness-Biblical-Retold/dp/1250237521 - Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness
- https://thework.com/
- https://stephenmitchellbooks.com/
- https://amzn.to/3qULECz - Order Michael Sandler's new book, "AWE, the Automatic Writing Experience"
- www.automaticwriting.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone welcome to Inspire Nation a daily show where we help you discover your |
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| 0:15.0 | I'm your host Michael Sandler. |
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| 1:00.6 | get ready to live your greatest life and to shine bright. |
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| 1:07.0 | Hello bright and shiny Beacon of Light. |
| 1:11.0 | If you've been listening to podcast after podcast, show after show after show, show after. of and have no idea where to start. That's why with all of my clients we start in the same place each and every time. |
| 1:28.2 | We start with automatic writing. |
| 1:29.8 | Even with over a thousand guests and several thousand books read, it's the number one tool I found |
| 1:35.2 | to get guidance and direction, and the only tool I use each and every day. |
| 1:40.1 | Automatic writing is a process of turning your journaling into channeling and |
| 1:43.4 | getting information and guidance from the other side of the veil. |
| 1:46.4 | Whether you call it angels, guides, God, or simply your deepest inner wisdom. |
| 1:52.0 | Automatic writing is perhaps the most cutting edge tool for connecting with the other side, |
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