How to Not Be Cynical About the World
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
WARNING: Life-changing revelation! In this episode, I explain why it's fruitless to be surprised that a fig tree produces figs. Trust me. You'll want to hear this.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought Podcast, The Place to Explore, to Food for Thought Podcast, The Place |
| 0:19.6 | to Explore, Celebrate, and Manifest, life motivated, and defined by unconditional compassion |
| 0:25.9 | and optimal wellness. |
| 0:27.8 | Today's episode is How to Not Be Sinical About the World. |
| 0:31.9 | Before we begin, my name is Colleen Patrick Godreau. |
| 0:35.1 | You can find me at joyful vegan.com, and on social media you can find my books wherever books are sold |
| 0:40.8 | and I hope you join me in one of my upcoming online cooking classes or |
| 0:45.4 | vegan trips around the world. This podcast is possible because of the support of |
| 0:50.5 | listeners like you so thank you so much for subscribing, for supporting, and for |
| 0:55.4 | listening to Food for Thought. You can join other supporters by going to Patreon.com |
| 1:00.5 | slash Colleen Patrick Gudro. |
| 1:03.0 | If you've been listening to me for a while, you know that next to Stoicism, the main philosophy |
| 1:07.6 | I study and follow. |
| 1:09.3 | My other main source of inspiration and guidance is the Dow de Jing, |
| 1:14.0 | whose principles and wisdom are actually very similar to stoicism in many ways. |
| 1:20.0 | If you've never heard of the Dowdaging, it was written around 400 BC by one Lautse, which translates to Old Master. |
| 1:30.0 | It's a hint that the author's true name, or the author's true name, |
| 1:34.0 | true name, or the author's true name, |
| 1:35.0 | we don't know if it was one person or several people over time, |
| 1:39.0 | has been lost forever, |
| 1:41.0 | and though we don't know the true identity of its author or authors, we do luckily still have this incredible text that comprises 81 short chapters that I have found to be the best manual for living |
| 1:58.9 | with integrity and compassion and part of my practice entails reading it daily, memorizing its passages and aspiring |
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