The past itself is not good or bad. It's both. It's a foundation from which we can do great things and it can be a limit which pulls us back.

Welcome to the one you feed throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.

Quotes like garbage in garbage out or you are what you think ring true and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us we tend toward negativity self pity jealousy or fear.

We see what we don't have instead of what we do we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.

But it's not just about thinking our actions matter it takes conscious consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction how they feed their good wolf.

Thanks for joining us our guest on this episode is Tim Freak a pioneering philosopher whose best selling books inspirational talks and life changing retreats have touched the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.

Tim is the author of thirty five books translated into more than fifteen languages including the Jesus mysteries which was a top six Amazon best seller and daily telegraph book of the year his newest book is soul story evolution and the purpose of life.

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And here's the interview with Tim Freak.

Hi Tim welcome to the show.

It's a pleasure to have you on your latest book is called soul story evolution and the purpose of life and we will get into all that here shortly but let's start like we normally do with the parable.

There's a grandfather who's talking with his grandson he says in life there are two wolves inside of us that are always at battle one is a good wolf which represents things like kindness and bravery and love and the others a bad wolf which represents things like greed and hatred and fear.

And the grandson stops and he thinks about it for a second he looks up at his grandfather and he says well grandfather which one wins and the grandfather says the one you feed so I'd like to start off by asking you what that parable means to you in your life and in the work that you do.

Well such a great little story isn't it and so simple like all the great stories and I was thinking about it before I came on the show that it's kind of resonant also for me because one of the meanings of my rather unusual surname freak spelt F re k e is it's one of the names of Odin's wolf.

So I'm a kind of a wolf clan person myself.

What's right to me is that I definitely experience those two wolves and I'm guessing why the story works so well is so does everybody the thing that I find myself asking is what are they what are those two voices and if I can understand what those two voices are that probably is the secret to how to live with them and how to choose wisely who I feed and so I think that one of the things in that I'm working with it's in my book so story just mentioned.

Is the powerful idea of evolution and I think an understanding of evolution can really help us understand us to two parts of us the traditional view is that there's a bad side of the good side.

We have a god and the devil that war inside of us or in spirituality you get a lot the idea that we've got a real self and then this is other ego self which is the enemy and I'm not any longer convinced by any of that it feels to me that what we've really got is an evolutionary process in which we're always coming from the world.

We're always coming from somewhere less conscious we're coming from the lesser into the greater into the more murder so what we have it within us are things from the past both our own individual past from our collective societal past and from our animal past our biological past and those voices can be pulling us backwards and then we have this evolutionary current pushing us forward to realize new possibilities and that I think is the voice which encourages us to grow into the world.

It encourages us to grow into love and courage and see new possibilities and what we have is that in inherent tension which arises from the very evolutionary process that we're everything is in because it's the nature of life.

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