Joseph and the way of forgiveness | Author Stephen Mitchell and Sage Robbins on awakening to higher meaning
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Tony Robbins
4.3 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The story from Genesis of Joseph and his eleven brothers is what Tolstoy called "the most beautiful story in the world." It's a tale of true forgiveness, and one of finding the higher meaning in difficult or even tragic life events.
In this episode, you'll hear Sage Robbins interview Stephen Mitchell, author of "Joseph and The Way of Forgiveness," Mitchell's reimagination of the classic Biblical story. The two friends discuss the deep relevance of its core message still today, and the application of the inquiry work of Mitchell's wife, Byron Katie, as a path to forgiveness in our own lives. With a special introduction by Tony Robbins.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody, welcome back to the podcast. This is Tony Robbins. Listen, if you've been listening |
| 0:15.9 | along during the holiday season, you know that each week we've been featuring one of the |
| 0:19.6 | 10 true gifts of life, the gift of emotion, the gift of drive, the gift of growth in our |
| 0:24.8 | transforms our life, the gift of joy, of gratitude, of love and connection, of consciousness, |
| 0:30.8 | of grace, of presence, and of course forgiveness. And this session we've created was really |
| 0:37.0 | special. What's made it very special, first of all, is a guest that we're going to have. |
| 0:41.4 | A guest is a person who's a scholar and extraordinary author and a dear friend of our family. |
| 0:46.1 | In fact, many of you know our passion and support for Byron Katie. One of them created |
| 0:51.2 | this method for questioning our negative thoughts, our destructive thoughts so that we can |
| 0:55.4 | free ourselves from them. And she's just a genius. She wrote a book called The Work. In fact, |
| 0:59.7 | people that go to business mastery, I teach a version, a shortened version of that, or even |
| 1:03.7 | to be used in business. It's an extraordinary tool. But even if you're familiar with Byron Katie |
| 1:07.9 | and The Work, you may not be familiar with the fact that her husband, Stephen Mitchell, is a total |
| 1:12.8 | genius. An author, he's published, I believe, almost a dozen books now, books on the doubt, |
| 1:18.5 | chained the book of Job, Bahagavgita, Baywolf, the Odyssey, and the Gospel according to Jesus. |
| 1:24.9 | And his books are reimaginations of these biblical stories or these stories from the great religious |
| 1:30.2 | books from around the world. As a scholar, he brings them to life. And recently, Sage and I |
| 1:36.6 | were sent one of his books. And we decided during Thanksgiving that we would read it together |
| 1:41.4 | aloud. As a family, it was Sage and I and our dear close friend Mary B and another dear friend, |
| 1:47.1 | James Bowman, kind of our chosen family. And it was so beautiful. We were so movedly said, |
| 1:53.0 | let's bring Stephen on and let's give people exposed to this book because the story is really about |
| 1:58.2 | Joseph, the biblical story Joseph and his 11 brothers from Genesis. Tolstoy called it the |
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