Tami Simon: Embracing Paradox: A special micro-episode

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Tami Simon is the founder and CEO of Sounds True, as well as the host of Insights at the Edge. In this special episode, Tami celebrates an amazing milestone: her five-hundredth podcast. Speaking on her many years as an interviewer, Tami explains that she has been able to take in all the competing, often contradictory viewpoints of her subjects by embracing the concept of paradox. She shares numerous examples of contrasting ideas (such as the roles of anger and surrender in spiritual practice) that she has entertained as truth. Tami considers the paradox of becoming more in tune with herself over the years while also learning how interconnected she is with all other beings. Finally, Tami mulls the painful contradiction of brilliant teachers who also prey on the vulnerable and what this means for the overall quest for spiritual discovery. (36 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio
0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.
0:14.3	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.2	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.2	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com. You're listening to Insights at The Edge.
0:37.0	Today is a very special episode.
0:45.0	Keep listening.
0:47.0	I'm going to begin with a bow. You can't see me, but I'm bowing to you.
1:15.0	And in bowing to you. And in bowing two things. One, I'd like to thank you for joining me in this special episode of Insights at the Edge. And also I want to make the back of my neck
1:19.0	available to you.
1:21.0	You could cut my head off if you wanted to. I want to make myself vulnerable to you and
1:30.7	speak for my genuine heart.
1:34.0	The team here at Sounds True has been nudging me for quite some time.
1:41.0	They've been saying,
1:42.0	Tammy, you've now hosted, how many interviews is it?
1:46.4	300, 400. We've crossed the 500 mark. You've hosted more than 500 podcasts. It's time that the audience hears from you.
1:58.8	And I've been hemming and haing a bit, and now I am, well, I'm not exactly standing and delivering.
2:07.6	I'm sitting in a chair in the Sounds True studio and sharing my heart, my soul really with you.
2:18.9	And the question that I want to address in this special episode is how have I survived hosting 500 of these
2:30.8	episodes and what I mean by survived is kept my sanity such as it is
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