Rabbi Rami Shapiro
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2015
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week we talk to Rabbi Rami Shapiro about perennial wisdom
Rabbi Rami Shapiro is an award-winning author, poet, essayist, and educator whose poems have been anthologized in over a dozen volumes, and whose prayers are used in prayer books around the world. Rami received rabbinical ordination from the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion and holds both Ph.d. and D.D. degrees. He has created a synagogue, worked as a management consultant for Fortune 500 companies, and got initiated into the Ramakrishna Order of Vedanta.
In addition to writing over 30 books, Rami writes a regular column for Spirituality and Health magazine called “Roadside Assistance for the Spiritual Traveler” He also host his own podcast Essential Conversations with Rabbi Rama.
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In This Interview Rabbi Rami and I Discuss...
The One You Feed parable.
How the good wolf can teach the bad wolf
Why Rabbi Rami is a Jew
How wisdom comes out of dialogue
The importance of thinking critically & paradoxically
The four components of perennial wisdom
The idea of spiritual maturity
The role of Believing in Something vs. Experiencing Something
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| 0:00.0 | I have lots of thoughts during the day that would land me in jail if I acted on them. |
| 0:13.5 | Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of |
| 0:18.6 | the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, |
| 0:25.6 | and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, |
| 0:31.6 | self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that |
| 0:38.4 | hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes |
| 0:44.8 | conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how |
| 0:50.7 | other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf. |
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| 1:29.1 | Listen to the history of the world's greatest nightclubs on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, |
| 1:34.1 | or wherever you get your podcasts. Our guest this week is Rabbi Rami, a freelance |
| 1:40.7 | theologian who makes his living writing and speaking. He has earned rabbinic |
| 1:44.9 | ordination from Hebrew Union College and a PhD from Union Graduate School. He has created a |
| 1:51.3 | synagogue, worked as a management consultant for Fortune 500 companies, and as if he hasn't been |
| 1:57.1 | busy enough has also published about 30 books. Rabbi Rami writes a regular column in spirituality |
| 2:03.6 | and health magazine who we are proud to have as this episode's sponsor. And before we get to |
| 2:08.8 | the interview, I want to mention that in the past several weeks we've been talking a lot about |
| 2:12.9 | the one you feed coaching program. If you've been wondering whether or not the program is good for |
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