Eckhart says the beginning of liberation is when you realize you are not the thinker. He says many people derive their identity from what the mind tells them.
Sep 2025
410: What True Compassion Is and How to Employ It By Default, part Cinq/Five of "What Lies at the Heart of Living Simply Luxuriously"
"Just as we are wired to be in connection with each other, we are wired with an impulse to help, with an instinct for compassion." —Deb Dana, author of Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory Empathy in action. While to empathize with another is a goo ... Show More
52m 36s
Nov 2021
Episode 101, Talking about the Mind (Part I - The Fabric of Reality)
<p><strong>Introduction</strong></p> <p>Imagine the smile on your parent's face as you rush to meet them at the school gates, the soft heat of the sand between your toes on a first holiday, waking up in the haze of a late afternoon after dancing all night, the drop in your stomac ... Show More
55 m
Mar 2025
The Illusion of Free Will? (Meditations 3.10)
In this episode, I explore Meditations 3.10, where Marcus Aurelius reminds himself—and us—that we only ever live in the present moment. He urges us to remember three things: life is short, the space we occupy is small, and fame is fleeting. But why does he emphasize this? Because ... Show More
23m 4s
Sep 2025
Hegel on Stoicism (Part One)
Discussing the section on Stoicism in Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit," which is under "Freedom of Self-Consciousness," "Stoicism, Scepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness." This comes right after his famous lordship and bondage chapter, and explains how in reaction to being de ... Show More
58m 13s
Mar 2025
Super Soul Special: Eckhart Tolle: Free Yourself From Anxiety, Stress and Unhappiness
<p>Original Air Date: October 22, 2017 </p><p>Visionary thought leader and author of “A New Earth,” Eckhart Tolle explains his view of where we are in the state of the new Earth today. With a shift that has separated millions of Americans, Eckhart teaches us how to lift the pain ... Show More
31m 55s