Stories of faith, patience, resilience
Meditative Story
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4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Times like these require faith, patience, and resilience. This short episode brings together moments from four beloved stories. Sharing a pivotal moment from their lives, these four storytellers explore the large and small insights that helped them find balance and connection in uncertain times. You'll hear from Wajahat Ali, Keith Yamashita, Judith Grisel, and Ghuan Featherstone, with gentle meditation breaks from our host, Rohan Gunatillake.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Rohan. While Earth Day may only be one day in April, we can find ways to |
| 0:05.9 | celebrate the natural world every day of the year. Perhaps you listen to Varshani Prakash's |
| 0:11.0 | meditative story about this very topic. So, I want to tell you about another podcast that |
| 0:16.8 | helps me cultivate this mindset. It's called The Science of Happiness. On each episode, |
| 0:23.8 | psychologists, daka-coutman and guests explore big questions like how can we tune into feelings |
| 0:30.9 | of awe and can hope lead to action? The Science of Happiness podcast explores where climate, |
| 0:38.2 | hope and science intersect. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:44.7 | Hello everyone, Rohan here, your host of meditative story. As we work with new storytellers for |
| 0:50.8 | upcoming season, which begins the first week of December, I'd love to offer you this look back |
| 0:56.1 | at some of the best moments from meditative story since we created the series just over here a go. |
| 1:02.3 | So take a few moments to settle in. Find a really comfortable position for yourself. |
| 1:10.4 | And I'm going to call up a few short scenes for moments of meditative story that I've been thinking |
| 1:15.6 | a lot about, especially in the context of such a seemingly impossible year of lives lost throughout |
| 1:21.6 | the pandemic, racial strife, climate urgencies and countless tests of human fortitude. |
| 1:28.5 | Our friend, Krista Tippett of the On Being podcast, describes geniuses as people who defy |
| 1:34.3 | every prognosis of human decline. I think of these extraordinary people who have shared a |
| 1:39.2 | meditative story to be this kind of genius. Truth is, it's a genius that lives in each of us, |
| 1:45.4 | requiring faith, patience and resilience in tough times like these. |
| 1:50.5 | We'll start with a meditative story from Wajahatali, a writer and public speaker whose |
| 1:56.1 | perspectives are always shared with a balance of humour, vulnerability and striking insight. |
| 2:02.0 | You might remember that in his meditative story, number 45 in the feed, |
| 2:06.6 | Wajah invites us on his family's journey through the illness of his young daughter, |
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