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The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Krista Tippett (On Being)

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Self-improvement, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Buddhism

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 20 July 2014

ā±ļø 46 minutes

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Summary

This week on The One You Feed we have Krista TippettĀ fromĀ On Being.Ā Ā In This Interview KristaĀ and I Discuss...The One You Feed parable.How modern news feeds our bad wolf.How science and religion ask different questions.How modern society looks for the most polarizing and strident views.Listening as a spiritual virtue.Being open to be surprised and amazed.Not needing to have the answers.Loving the questions themselves.Paradox and ambiguity.A reverence for mystery.ArrivingĀ at some of the best places in our lives through mistakes.Depression as a black pandoras box.The things that go wrong for us become part of our gifts to the world.We become great not in spiteĀ of the hardships but because of them.The path to spiritual genius is through being fully human.Krista's definition of spirituality- the inner work that accompanies our outer lives.Humor as a virtue.How she has never met a wise person who does not laugh often.Krista TippettĀ LinksOn Being homepageOn Being on TwitterRead Krista's booksĀ Some of our most popular interviews you might also enjoy:Kino MacGregorStrand of OaksMike Scott of the WaterboysTodd Henry- author of Die EmptyRandy Scott HydeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The reality of life is that you get to a lot of the places you want it to be or you you are meant to be but you would never have known it through things that went wrong.

0:18.1

Welcome to the one you feed throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have quotes like garbage in garbage out or you are what you think ring true.

0:30.0

And yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us we tend toward negativity self pity jealousy or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.

0:44.9

But it's not just about thinking our actions matter it takes conscious consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.

0:52.9

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction how they feed their good wolf.

1:13.9

Hi I'm Frida and I'm Arthie we have spent the last 20 years building and working at some of the largest companies in the world.

1:21.9

We work with some remarkable people Rob McAllenny when I see the people of Rex and I grew up exactly like them.

1:27.9

Check out the Arthie and Sri Ram Show that is AARTHI and SRIRAM Show.

1:36.9

Listen to the Arthie and Sri Ram Show on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:44.9

Welcome to the show our guest this week is Krista Tippett host of on being the Peabody award winning public radio show and podcast on being opens up the animating questions at the center of human life.

1:57.9

What does it mean to be human and how do we want to live?

2:00.9

Krista is also the author of speaking of faith why religion matters and Einstein's God conversations about science and the human spirit.

2:09.9

Here's the interview.

2:11.9

Hi Krista welcome to the show.

2:12.9

I'm glad to be with you.

2:14.9

Yeah thanks so much I'm really excited to have you on your show on being is one of my favorites and certainly one of the things that I look to as we started this show something that I was hoping to aspire to.

2:26.9

Thanks for the great example.

2:28.9

Thank you.

2:30.9

So our podcast is based on the parable of the two wolves where there's a grandfather who's talking with his grandson and he says in life there are two wolves inside of us that are always a battle.

2:42.9

One is a good wolf which represents things like kindness and bravery and love and the other is a bad wolf which represents things like greed and hatred and fear.

2:52.9

And the grandson stops any things and he says grandfather well which one wins and the grandfather says the one you feed.

3:00.9

So I'd like to start off by asking you what that parable means to you in your life and in the work that you do.

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