Roland Merullo

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to Roland Merullo about focusing on our internal life

Roland Merullo is the author of nine novels, including Breakfast with Buddha and Lunch with Buddha, A Little Love Story and American Savior.
Merullo's nonfiction writing includes Revere Beach Elegy:A Memoir of Home and Beyond" target="_blank">Revere Beach Elegy, a memoir that won the 2000 Massachusetts Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the travel book The Italian Summer, His essays have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Readers Digest among many others.
At various points in his life, he has worked in a parking garage, worked for the United States Information Agency in the former Soviet Union, served in the Peace Corps in Micronesia, worked as a carpenter, and taught creative writing and literature at Bennington and Amherst Colleges.

In This Interview Roland and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable.
Choosing our own thoughts.
How all that we are is a result of our thoughts.
Using humor to convey deeper subjects.
His definition of spirituality
Focusing on our interior life.
The relationship between thought, emotion and behavior.
Learning to see our conditioned thoughts.
How we never catch up to God or the Divine Intelligence.
Learning to be less materialistic- focusing on the things we can't touch or define.
Is the human race evolving?
Not knowing the answer to the big questions.
His meditation practice.
How meditation has helped him with depression.
How he uses his writing as a vehicle of hope.
Choosing the positive instead of the negative.
Not passing our pain on to others.
Worshipping false gods.
The spiritual ideas in the Breakfast with Buddha and Lunch with Buddha books.
How often spiritual leaders laugh.
Did Jesus and Buddha laugh often?

Roland Merullo Links
Roland Merullo Homepage
Roland Merullo Facebook
Roland Merullo Twitter
Roland Merullo Amazon Author Page

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0:00.0	Jesus and Buddha, you just don't see any human there.
0:03.6	And I wonder if that was edited out, I hope so.
0:14.7	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:16.7	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:21.2	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:26.8	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:31.1	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:35.8	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:38.7	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:42.1	But it's not just about thinking.
0:44.1	Our actions matter.
0:45.6	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:50.4	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:54.8	how they feed their good wolf.
1:10.3	Hi, it's Elvis Jaran, on my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Jaran.
1:15.1	I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.
1:20.1	We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love,
1:24.3	success, failure, whatever else comes to mind.
1:26.3	But I'll jacked up because after being in this business for as long as I have,
1:30.2	I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.
1:32.7	Now listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
1:38.4	or wherever you get your podcasts.
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