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The Daily Motivation

Stop Chasing Worth - You're Already Everything You Need | Rob Bell EP 871

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8893 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

"Everything you are working and striving for, you already have. That so often we're working, sweating, clinging, grasping, striving to feel worthy enough. And the fundamental good news, what's called the gospel, is the announcement that you're loved exactly as you are." - Rob Bell Spiritual teacher Rob Bell unveils a profound truth about the human struggle for worthiness, challenging our deeply ingrained beliefs about achievement and acceptance. Through his candid reflections, he reveals his own battle with the relentless inner voice that whispers "push, push, push," and "it's not enough," while sharing how he's learned to embrace the radical notion that we're already complete. Bell's journey demonstrates the transformative power of accepting our inherent worthiness, showing how this acceptance frees us to create and achieve from a place of wholeness rather than lack. In a remarkable convergence of spirituality and surfing, Bell shares how his daily encounters with the ocean have become a form of moving meditation, offering glimpses of the divine in unexpected places. From swimming with dolphins off Venice Beach to witnessing great white sharks at Sunset Point, these experiences embody the rare combination of terror and wonder that characterizes authentic spiritual awakening. His stories illustrate how finding joy isn't about achieving more, but about awakening to the wonder that already surrounds us – even in the midst of our everyday struggles and imperfections.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:12.4

What do you think is missing for most people in order to reach some type of depth and joy?

0:18.9

That everything you are working and striving for you already have.

0:25.6

That so often we're working, sweating, clinging, grasping, striving to feel worthy enough.

0:35.1

And the fundamental good news, what's called the gospel is the announcement

0:39.0

that you're loved exactly as you are. You don't have to do anything. You're already a daughter

0:45.8

of the divine. You're already a son of the divine. You're already in. There's this great line

0:52.0

in this story of the prodigal son where the father says,

0:54.7

you are always with me and everything I have is yours.

1:00.0

It's interesting when you talk about, well, what do you think about God?

1:03.0

I think in images, I think in lines, I think in pictures, and I think in like dialogue,

1:08.4

like, you are always with me me and everything I have is yours.

1:12.9

So all of the stuff that we do to feel like we measure up that we're worth, it's all been

1:17.7

taking care of.

1:18.1

You're fine.

1:18.8

Now in response to that, let's make some stuff.

1:21.9

Let's do something.

1:22.6

Let's go do something.

1:23.4

Yeah.

1:23.6

But then we're coming from a different place.

1:26.1

And we're not doing this to prove something And we're not doing this to prove something.

1:28.1

We're not doing this to earn something.

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