What We Can Learn from the Wisdom of Harriet Tubman with Spring Washam
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In This Episode, You'll Learn …
- Why we need to honor the history of our ancestors like Harriet Tubman
- How struggle and hardship are universal and also necessary to learn and grow
- How Spring came to explore and write about the spiritual nature of Harriet Tubman
- The lesson and legacy of Harriet and how we can learn to break free from the “prisons” of our mind
- Defining internal, outer. and ultimate abolitionism and the significance of each phase
- How the north star symbolizes a guiding light of hope and freedom
- How understanding our nation’s history can help bring more compassion and awareness to what’s happening in current times
- Why we need to remember that negative media can skew our perception of the world and not realize how much goodness there is
- The beautiful story of Sujata about the harmonizing of feminine and masculine energy
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| 0:00.0 | I think we have to be willing to trust that life is teaching us and often it's through |
| 0:06.1 | enduring and experiencing, suffering and difficulties that allows us to become much stronger. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:23.6 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:28.1 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. And yet for many of us |
| 0:35.2 | our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear. |
| 0:42.7 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our |
| 0:48.0 | spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, |
| 0:54.2 | and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep |
| 0:59.6 | themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:17.2 | I'm Jay Shetty and on my podcast on purpose, I've had the honor to sit down with some of the |
| 1:21.4 | most incredible hearts and minds on the planet. Oprah, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Hart, |
| 1:26.8 | Lewis Hamilton, and many, many more. On this podcast, you get to hear the raw real life stories behind |
| 1:32.4 | their journeys and the tools they used, the books they read, and the people that made a difference |
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| 1:47.1 | Thanks for joining us. Back, I believe for the third time on the One You Feed podcast is our |
| 1:53.9 | friend, Spring Washam, a well-known meditation and Dharma teacher based in Oakland, California. |
| 1:59.8 | She's the founding member and core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center there in Oakland. |
| 2:05.1 | She's also the founder of Lotus Fine Journeys, an organization that blends Indigenous healing |
| 2:10.8 | practices with Buddhist wisdom. Spring was trained by Jack Cornfield and has studied numerous meditation |
| 2:17.2 | practices in Buddhist philosophy since 1997. She is also a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council. |
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