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- Who Is Gentle George and What Is Speaking Peacefully?
Have you ever stopped and wondered, “Is this all life is?”
I was fourteen years old, standing at a bathroom mirror with tears falling down my face, when I first asked that question. In this opening episode of Speaking Peacefully, I share where that question led me over the thirty-seven years that followed, and why it brought me here, to you.
This is a gentle introduction to who Gentle George is, how the name came to be, and what it really means to speak peacefully.
In this episode:
- The bathroom mirror: growing up feeling too soft for a world that was becoming harder, and the mask I put on just to get through
- Searching for mystery: Queen, The Celestine Prophecy, and the day I first saw auras around birds and trees
- Why spirituality can’t only be about what comes after death, and how I found the love it promises here and now
- Discovering non-dual spirituality, and the realisation that I am the love I seek
- Who Gentle George is: who I was before the mask, and who I am becoming as I take it off
- What the world teaches, and what gentleness teaches instead
- Meeting Walks With Strangers, the spirit guide who has walked beside me, and the story of how he earned his name
- What Speaking Peacefully means, and why this podcast will never tell you what is true, but will always invite you to discover what is true for you
Throughout the episode there are moments of silence for you to reflect. You might want to sit with these questions:
- Do you remember a time when you asked, “Is this all life is?”
- How would your understanding of spirituality change if the love it promises was available here and now?
- Which of the teachings of gentleness would help you most right now?
- What would change today if you really believed that you are already enough?
Find somewhere comfortable. You might want to close your eyes. You are very welcome here, exactly as you are.
Next week: “We never left heaven, we only forget that we are in it.”
Explore the 20 Laws, the poetry cards and the books at gentle-george.com
With care, with love and without condition.
I love you.
George
15 min
About Speaking Peacefully
From the publisher's feed
Speaking Peacefully is a weekly podcast hosted by George Howell, writer, spiritual teacher, and the voice behind Gentle George.
Each week, George takes one idea from the…
world of Gentle George and holds it with care. He speaks from his own experience: how he found these ideas, what it cost him to learn them, and how they show up in the everyday moments that matter most. A difficult conversation. A quiet Sunday morning. The feeling of not being enough and the quiet discovery, arriving slowly, that you always were.
The podcast opens with a chime and a moment of silence. No background music. No urgency. Just George, speaking as though you are sitting across from him, and he has all the time in the world for you.
George's teaching draws on non-duality, the wisdom of his spirit guide Walks with Strangers, and a lifetime of choosing gentleness in a world that rarely rewards it. He does not offer prescriptions, systems, or protocols. He offers a different way of seeing, one that begins with the quietly radical idea that you are already enough, exactly as you are, right now.
Speaking Peacefully explores:
The 20 Laws of Gentle George: twenty quiet truths to sit with at your own pace, in your own time. Not commandments. Not conditions. Ideas.
Non-dual forgiveness: how releasing blame breaks the cycle of repetitive conflicts and opens the door to genuine connection with the people we love.
Peace as a felt space within: not simply the absence of war or conflict, but something you can know in your body, in a still moment, on an ordinary afternoon.
Self-love and stillness: what it actually means to care for yourself, and why resting in stillness is where self-love begins.
The everyday spiritual life: how the ideas of non-duality and unconditional love shape not what comes after death, but the life that is already happening.
Conversations drawn from the wisdom of Walks with Strangers, George's spirit guide, whose teaching on peace, presence, and the nature of love continues to influence everything George shares.
Each episode closes the same way it began: with care, with love, without condition.
Speaking Peacefully is for those who feel the world is harder than it should be. For those who are tired of striving and wondering when life will finally begin. For those who sense, somewhere underneath the noise, that there is another way to be in the world.
There is. And it begins with a single, quiet idea.
Each episode invites the listener to explore their own truth.
gentle-george.com