Podcasts
ISmile 218- Accepting the Invitation
At a recent sitting, Michael offered up a poem from Oriah Mountain Dreamer's book, The Invitation. This is the podcast of that evening. Several subjects were broached including how practice can get heavy the further along the Path we get, as well as how we might best...
ISmile 217- Uncovering What is Deeper
Of all the driving forces behind an authentic spiritual practice, none is more important than the willingness to go deeper. Rather than meaning that we need to move anywhere, going deeper means that we must continually surrender to the source of our impulse to move....
ISmile216 – “I”ddiction
“When you see through the addiction to a separate sense of selfhood you’ve got an opportunity to move past ‘I’ddiction.”
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ISmile215 – Just Being
“The moment we recognize that the white hot fire of desire won’t kill us, we begin deepening a practice that can’t help but show Freedom.”
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ISmile214 – The Boundary Between Self and Peace
“The light of awareness has the ability to break the bonds that continually prevent deep clarity from tearing down the boundary between self and Infinite.”
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ISmile213 – Interview: Becoming the Wildest Thing of All
“I wrote Awake in This Life because I didn’t have much of a choice. Too many people have an awful choice that involves either trying to fit into the religious tradition of their past which no longer holds much relevance, or they can choose to have no spiritual life at all. This isn’t a choice that people have to make. There is another way.”
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ISmile 212- What We Really Want
“Let clarity reflect itself internally so that the question of what you want allows you to get out of your own way.”
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ISmile211 – Behind the Mask of Self-concern
“The mask of personality is also a blinder to what is infinite in others.”
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ISmile 210- The Trial
In this podcast, Michael shares his experience of going through the deep trials of spiritual work. Rather than being impediments to the Path, Michael argues that the powerful challenges that stillness brings helps to bring light into and through our work. This...
ISmile209 – Living Unopposed
“When we live from a place of non-opposition, we have more tools with which to build lives of meaning.”
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