866: Scott Stabile: Author of Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide-Open Heart

About fifteen years ago, a friend asked me what I wanted to do with my life. I told him I wanted to spread as much love as possible. My answer’s still the same.

I know life isn't always a party. It's often hard, sometimes brutal. My parents were shot to death when I was fourteen. My brother OD'd on heroin nine years later. I grew up around a lot of addiction, dysfunction and tragedy. And with too much shame over the fact that I was gay. I hid my pain, and I hid my truth. Not anymore.

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865: Stop Looking for a Guru: 3 Ways to Hear Your Own Truth

When My Mom was alive, earlier in my life, I remember her working at a spiritual book store.  But here is the thing, The majority of people that she met, that came in to buy books, were not looking for ways to become spiritual.  They were looking for the latest book to take away their problems.  Of course, this wasn't everyone, but a majority.  Today I talk about ways to help you find your own answers.

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864: Three Ways to Begin a Spiritual Practice

There are people who are satisfied to live an unexamined life.  However, others seek to understand their existence; to understand the answers to the bigger questions.  This desire to experience more is at the heart of spirituality.  But many people don't want to be spiritual because they think the time commitment is too much or that they literally have to go on a pilgrimage.  Both perceptions are inaccurate.  Today I talk about 3 ways to begin a spiritual practice.

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