Episode 477 - Living with a Whole Heart
Living Myth
Michael Meade
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Living Myth, Michael Meade considers the current global challenges and emphasizes the importance of living from a place of wholeheartedness. He reflects on the symbolism of an open heart and how facing personal fears contributes to living a life of meaning and purpose. Woven through this episode are poems from Rumi and William Stafford about the need for transformation and the unique role each soul plays in the world's drama.
Like the Earth, the human heart bears an inner flame that can burn with intense passions and deep longings, but can also illuminate paths of compassion, healing and renewal. Our greatest obstacles and sufferings aim at a revelation of the heart within our heart. For, what the heart loves is the cure and what cures the human heart can help heal a broken world.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Living Myth podcast with Michael Mead, where this shifting, changing world is looked at from a mythic perspective. |
| 0:18.0 | In this episode, Mead considers the current global challenges |
| 0:23.3 | and emphasizes the importance of living from a place of wholeheartedness. He reflects on the |
| 0:29.3 | symbolism of an open heart and how facing personal fears contributes to living a life of meaning |
| 0:34.8 | and purpose. Woven through this episode are poems from Rumi and William Stafford |
| 0:40.3 | about the need for transformation |
| 0:42.3 | and the unique role each soul plays in the world's drama. |
| 0:46.3 | Like the earth, the human heart bears an inner flame |
| 0:50.3 | that can burn with intense passions and deep longings, |
| 0:53.3 | but can also illuminate paths of compassion, |
| 0:57.0 | healing, and renewal. |
| 0:59.0 | I was imagining the difficulty of the times we're living in and here in the United States, |
| 1:20.8 | the storms are getting greater, the political storms are getting much greater. |
| 1:24.8 | There's lots of pressure on everyone and lots of anxiety, collective anxiety, |
| 1:29.4 | on top of personal anxiety, intensification of fears, and so on, and it's easy for the heart to |
| 1:35.8 | close down when one of the few ways to respond to a world that's falling apart is to become more |
| 1:43.1 | wholehearted. |
| 1:50.7 | And one way I thought about it was that the tragic conditions of the current world, that is to say, |
| 1:58.3 | climate crisis, the return of land wars, the intensification of authoritarian governments and movements, the loss of freedoms, the increase of refugees, and we go on and on, |
| 2:03.5 | is really heartbreaking. To look at the world is heartbreaking. And yet again, it often takes |
| 2:10.3 | some heartbreak to learn what it is that we carry in the depths of our own hearts and souls. |
| 2:21.4 | I grew up in Catholic schools and churches and a lot of the statues, the deities, Jesus and Mary and even Joseph, and the statues have an open |
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