Sam and Joe discuss 3 quotes about Christianity from Bishop John Spong. 

Sam and Joe discuss this quote:

Natural Great Peace

by Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje

Rest in natural great peace
 This exhausted mind
 Beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought
 Like the relentless fury of pounding waves
 In the infinite ocean of saṃsāra.

Sam and Joe discuss this David Hume quote: For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never catch myself at any time without perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.

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Sam and Joe kick off the new year by discussing a quote from Joseph Campbell:

People say they believe in God. God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought.
Even the categories of being and nonbeing.
Those are categories of thought. I mean it's as simple as that. It depends on how much you want to think about it. Whether it's putting you in touch with the mystery that is the ground of your own being. If it isn't, well, it's a lie.

Sam and Joe discuss Verse 4 of the Tao Te Ching:

The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible,

Like an abyss!

It seems to be the origin of all things.

It dulls the sharpness,

Unties the knots,

Dims the light,

Becomes one with the dust.

Deeply hidden, as if it only might exist.

I do not know whose child it is.

It seems to precede the ancestor of all.

Sam and Joe discuss some of Adam Phillips' ideas about extending therapy outside the therapists office. This leads to discussion of using Chat GPT for mental health and a dive into the hosts own experiences of therapy. 

Sam and Joe discuss a School of Life Quote: 

"But two truths would help:

1. There aren't that many people we genuinely like.

2. There aren't that many people who deeply like us back. The sooner we accept this, the gentler the experience becomes."

Sam and Joe discuss an Eckhart Tolle quote which launches them into a broader discussion of loneliness vs solitude. Also discussed is the latest post from Alain de Botton, you can find a link here: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxIxHSMpzz1Lc45g-e3W8bt_PMO3oFVYU4

Is this episode Joe and Sam get into attraction. Capricious, fleeting, hard to pin down. More than just boobs and bums and 90's pin ups? We seem to think so. 

Sam and Joe discuss listener Kate's question about "radical honesty". They also get into rigorous honesty, brutal honesty and kind honesty. 

Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_honesty

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26792/honesty0707/

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