Roger Housden on Poetry for Difficult Times

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

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🗓️ 2 January 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Roger Housden is a second time guest on the show – you might remember him from episode 152. He founded The Open Gate which is a conference and workshop center in England that introduced the work of Ram Dass and Thich Nhat Hanh and many others into Europe. You also might have seen his work featured in places like O Magazine, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. In this episode, Roger and Eric discuss his beautiful book, 10 Poems for Difficult Times.

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In This Interview, Roger Housden and I Discuss…

His book, 10 Poems for Difficult Times
Saying “there is happiness happening” or “there is anger happening” rather than “I am angry” or “I am happy”
How poetry helps us in difficult times
That poetry gives voice to that which is unsayable
The poet Ellen Bass
How suffering can soften us if we bow down to it
That you can’t fake surrender
The opportunity in suffering is growth
How poetry points us in the direction of possibility in suffering
The poet Maggie Smith
The poet Marie Howe
Annunciation by Marie Howe
The specific pointing to the universal in poetry

Roger Housden Links

Homepage

Twitter

Facebook

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0:00.0	I am angry. I am happy. No, there is anger happening. There is kindness happening. Is that who I am?
0:17.1	Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:22.2	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:29.3	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:35.3	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
0:42.0	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes
0:48.5	conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how
0:54.4	other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf.
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1:41.1	Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for joining us. On today's episode,
1:46.5	we have Roger Howston, who has been on the show before, back on episode 152. Roger founded
1:53.1	and ran the Open Gate, a conference and workshops center in England that introduced the work of
1:57.8	Ram Das, Ticknott Han, and many others into Europe. His work has been featured many times in the
2:04.0	Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, and Los Angeles Times. On this episode, Eric and Roger discuss
2:10.4	his book, Ten Poems for Difficult Times. Happy New Year, everyone. The changing of the years is a
2:17.2	time where a lot of people reflect on the year past and think about things they'd like to do
2:22.4	differently in the new year. If you're in this place and you're looking at what you'd like to do
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