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Welcome back to On Purpose, the number one health podcast in the world, thanks to each and every single one of you.
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I am so glad that you've been training your mind for peace and purpose every day, every week with me.
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And today I'm going to share with you a behind-the-scenes conversation that I had with Glennon Doyle, a good friend of mine.
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And she and me got into this incredible conversation on Instagram Live, but I really wanted to share it with you because
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 You know, when you go live, not everyone's on and people miss it, and if you're a fan of Glennon and her incredible work, then you're going to love this conversation because it's totally different from any conversation I've had about the book.
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We dive into what's happening in society, we dive into activism, and we dive into purpose, and I can't wait for you to hear it.
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 I really feel that everything that I'm sharing this book is not to make people more passive.
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Being peaceful is not being passive.
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Being purposeful is not being passive.
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Being compassionate is not being passive.
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None of this is to make people more passive.
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It's to make people more active with a deeper intention.
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 I want to tell everybody a couple things.
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First of all, the reason that I'm thrilled to introduce anyone who doesn't know you to my audience, I'm sure they already do, but as you well know, Jay, there are a lot of people in our lane that are wonderful.
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And some of them, you meet them and they talk about peace and love and acceptance.
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And then you meet them and you're like, but I don't know if it's working.
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 Right?
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You are, you teach so beautifully, but in real life, you have just such generosity of spirit and a real joy, just a commitment to service that feels nothing like martyrdom.
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It feels like it's joy to you.
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And whenever I meet someone like that, I just feel determined to, you know, it's like being like, okay, I'll have what he's having.
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 Okay.
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So that's the other first season.
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But the other reason this book, first of all, here are all my notes for our talk today.
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And I'm telling you the way I decided last night, because I feel like it's been a weird time to launch a book.
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I know.
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But the reason why I think this book is doing ridiculously well and is all over the place.
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I think I saw it in Times Square yesterday is because I think the universe knows when we need certain messages.
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 And I think that we as a nation are in such a state of trauma and fear and anxiety, a fight or flight constantly.
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There's something that is helpful, peaceful, healing about what you've written that is helping people in this moment.
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So thank you.
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 And can you just talk to, first of all, would you mind telling everybody this story about how the hell you became a monk?
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Well, first of all, Glennon, I'm going to thank you from the bottom of my heart, because as you were saying that, I was
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 trying to just receive it, because it was so beautifully and genuinely shared.
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And it truly just really touched my heart.
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And you have this incredible energy.
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Every time we're together, the first time I interviewed you for your incredible book, Untamed,
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 And I was so excited to meet you because I followed your work for so many, many years.
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And the conversation we had wasn't a conversation.
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It was like this deep connection.
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And I really felt that.
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I really felt it.
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And I just really appreciate those words from you about what I'm trying to do in the world, because it means a lot coming from someone that I'm inspired by and in awe of.
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So thank you.
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That genuinely means the world to me.
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 But going on to becoming a monk.
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So now I wish I got to be a monk at the monastery.
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That would have been cool.
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That would have been an epic place to be a monk or a mumk.
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I don't know if that's how you would say it.
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But yeah, so I was born and raised in London.
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I never in the world imagined being on
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 any sort of well-being path or spiritual path or anything of that sort.
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I was surrounded by people who wanted to do well and just perform and succeed.
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And that never really sat with me either, but I didn't have a better alternative.
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And I think a lot of us are in that place sometimes where we don't know the alternative, so we follow the most common path.
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 And then when I was 18, I met a monk.
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And so I was really fascinated when I met him.
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But before I met him, I had this slight arrogance and cynicism around what I could learn from a monk.
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I thought, well, what am I going to learn from a monk?
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I was fascinated by people who went from sacrifice and pain and broke through and did something with their life.
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And in my opinion, I was like, well, what has a monk done?
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A monk's gone from nothing to nothing.
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I want to meet people who've gone from nothing to something.
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 And so I had this cynicism, but my friends promised me that we would go to a bar afterwards if I went to this event.
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So that was the state of my consciousness, just to put it out there.
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And so I went there with arrogance, I went there with cynicism, and I went there with just not expecting anything really.
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 And it's one of those humbling, ironic moments in your life where you walk in expecting nothing and you walk out feeling like you've gained everything you were looking for.
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And that moment just completely changed the trajectory of my life.
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And it was because
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 I realise now in hindsight, I didn't know this then, but when I was 18 I'd met people who were rich, I'd met people who were famous, I'd met people who were beautiful and attractive, and I'd met people that were knowledgeable and intellectual, but I don't think I'd ever met anyone who was truly joyful.
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 And that's what he had.
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The monk had this aura of purpose in his life and meaning and fulfillment.
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And it wasn't like this sparkly, halo-like energy.
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It was just, he had it in himself, in his presence.
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And so it's almost as if the question I ask people today is, who's your monk?
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Like, who is it in your life that you haven't met yet that could change the trajectory of your life?
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And for me, it was a monk.
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And for you, it may be someone else.
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 But that's how I met a monk, got inspired.
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And then when I graduated a few years later, I decided to turn down my office in the city and go and live as a monk for three years.
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And so that's why my role models and idols became monks from 18 years old.
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And I started interning with them in my summers almost.
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So I would spend half of my summer vacations interning at a finance company in London.
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 and I'd spend the other half living with the monks in India.
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And then when I graduated, I decided that was the path that I wanted to go on.
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So that's the quickest version of that episode.
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So you guys, this isn't a dude that just is like, ew, I'll choose a monk as my brand.
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 An actual freaking monk.
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Okay, Jay, real quick, I need to know, what did your parents say when you told them that you were gonna just go ahead and be a monk?
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Yeah, Glennon, it's funny you say that about the brand thing.
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You know, it's really funny.
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I hear that sometimes.
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It's just like, oh, Jay, like, you know, this monk brand thing's cool.
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And I'm just like...
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 I'm just like, I just want to let you know that becoming a monk at 22 was potentially the most uncool thing I could be doing.
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Just to put it out there, like my friends thought that, like the craziest thing was a lot of my friends, a lot of my guy friends at university,
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 they were like, Jay, what are we going to talk about anymore?
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Because you won't talk about women.
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And I was like, is that all we talk about?
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I was like, literally, is that all we talk about?
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That you feel we don't have a relationship anymore?
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And then I had other family members saying to me, you've wasted your life.
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You've wasted all your parents' support.
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Your education was a waste of time.
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And so I was hearing all this noise and people saying like, you know, you'll never get a job again.
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 You know, you'll never make money again.
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You know that you've just been brainwashed and, you know, you've just lost it.
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And that's literally 99.9% of the people in my life were saying that.
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And thankfully my parents were not pro my decision, but they were not against it.
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My parents have kind of, since I was about 14, 15, when I started rebelling, my parents just started giving me freedom to make my own decisions.
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And so my parents kind of just let go from the age of 14, 15.
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Up until then, they really tried to,
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 direct me and guide me.
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And then from 14, 15, it was just like, well, whatever you want.
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And so they gave me that freedom.
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And then my youngest sister has always been like my biggest cheerleader.
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So she supported me and she was happy for me.
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But if I'm completely honest, all I was hearing was just, Jay, you've ruined your life.
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Yeah, it's not cool to go and be a monk at 22 or any age.
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I mean, I just want to take a minute and think and just highlight what you just said, because so many people in this community are parents.
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 When you said my parents were not super pro but not super against, that feels like a really important place for a parent of a teenager to be.
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Because sometimes I try, my kids are a little older and I'm trying to let them, we always say, disappoint me, don't disappoint yourself.
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But sometimes when they have an idea that is right up my alley,
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 I get really pro that thing, which is just as controlling.
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So that is a monk-like parenting move that's like, even when you're really excited about it, just like a little bit of neutrality and unattachment that lets them control themselves.
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I love that.
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Let's look into the monk-like parent mentality.
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I love it.
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You can extract all these
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 We have talked about before is people who just started following me don't know that I started my entire writing journey with a blog called Monastery.
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And the reason why is because I was obsessed with monks.
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I was.
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At the time I was obsessed with the Benedictines and just this idea of people who didn't, who rejected a little bit of the way that the real world works.
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And we're like, there's gotta be a better way with like more peace and more connection and more joy and more contemplativeness and more like,
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 So they remove themselves.
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But this is what I like for you to talk to us a little bit about, Jay, because it's not about what you when you said you liked people who struggled and, you know, made a difference and showed up.
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I think there's this idea that this sort of living is escapism.
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 And so you're talking right now to a community of rabid activists.
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So help us understand, because what I know is what you prove in this book, which is that the more monk-like we can be in our minds and bodies, the more effective we are in the world.
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So can you talk about that, how it's not an either or?
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They said my head should be cut off.
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 Yes, absolutely, absolutely.
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And I love that.
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I actually wanted to quote, because you said Benedictine monks, so I quote some Benedictine monks in the book.
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So chapter 205, Benedictine monk brother David Stando Ross defines gratitude as the feeling of appreciation that comes when you recognize that something is valuable to you, which has nothing to do with its monetary worth.
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So it's a beautiful definition.
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But anyway, you reminded me of that, so I wanted to pull it out.
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But
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 This principle is really important and I chose the path that I did of becoming a monk because half the day was self and the other half was service.
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So our morning was dedicated to self, self-realization, self-actualization, self-mastery.
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 And the rest of the day was serve, serve, serve, go and make a difference.
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And we were doing everything from feeding kids to homeless people to building sustainable villages.
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Like our whole rest of the day was sharing and serving.
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But we were trained in understanding that the quality of our service is the quality of our sadhana.
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And sadhana means daily practices and your daily purification.
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 So what we were made to understand is that if you run around trying to give water to everyone in the world, but the well that you're getting water from is muddy, then you're actually spreading more disease and more pain in the world.
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But if you've purified your well, and if you're trying every day, by the way, no one's
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 perfect.
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So we're always purifying and cleansing.
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But if you're daily purifying and cleansing and giving that pure and cleansed water from that day, then the whole world can be healed.
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So when we live in this way, we get an opportunity
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 to truly feel the benefit of also living the life that we want others to live.
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And I think often we try and live it through them rather than recognizing that first, if we experience the joy of clean, pure water,
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 then we will be even more incredible ambassadors and advocates for that.
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And so for me, being an activist is probably one of the most beautiful roles we can all play in our lives.
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And I would want to consider myself, you know, active in that space too.
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But I do feel that
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 we can be even more powerful as you said even more effective when we ourselves practicing and cleansing and preparing ourselves and that is a daily commitment it isn't a I've done that now and now I'm clean it's not a destination it is very much
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 a daily practice.
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I hope that answers your question, Glennon.
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Yes, it does.
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And the daily part, Jay, also, I think that so many people think that, like, we get the self thing right, we just nail this personal life, and then we can show up for other people.
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That's not my experience at all, right?
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Because I feel like on a daily basis, never feel like I'm nailed, like I'm ready, I'm done, I'm fixed.
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 Exactly.
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We had the first day when we had our first monk class, the senior monk said to us, he said, this is a hospital.
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It's not heaven.
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And he said that some of you are doctors and some of you are patients.
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And he said, sometimes you'll see that the doctors are also patients.
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 And he said, sometimes you notice that the patients can also become doctors.
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And he said, you're a patient and a doctor every single day, all at the same time, just like we all are in life.
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We're all patients and we're all doctors in some way.
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We're students and teachers.
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And so the more we realize that
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 Yes, I fully agree with you that there is no point where you say, now I have solved myself, now I can serve.
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It's actually in the service, you go deeper in your own self-practice.
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And as you go deeper in your self-practice, you go deeper in the service.
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It's a symbiotic relationship.
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And we shouldn't wait to feel complete before we give, because then we'll never give.
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And at the same time, we shouldn't give without trying to cleanse, because then we're not giving anything of value.
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And so it's always both.
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It's always both.
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 And you said we can give ourselves the benefit of living the lives we are trying to get for others.
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Like, did anyone who's listening want to cry at that?
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When I think about how much we're fighting for people to have freedom and rest and like how very enjoy.
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And then all day I'm bitching about, you know, I just, I think that's a beautiful goal to give yourself a little slice of what you are.
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 trying to provide for the world, your children, your partners, your friends.
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It's so beautiful.
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And I love people like you because I can't stand people who think that they're doctors all the time.
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I need people who understand that they are doctors and patients.
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 Oh, for sure.
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It's really interesting you raise that, Glennon, because I also find that it comes in our own human psychology, where we like to project perfection onto others in our desire for this divine, in our desire for this complete projection.
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 And actually, it's so important to listen to what people say.
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So I often talk about, me and my wife often talk about the arguments we have or the difficult conversations we have to have or the challenges and the differences that we have in our relationships.
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And it's really interesting to me because often people will just be like, oh, but you both are so cute together.
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And I'm like, yeah, but that's not what we're talking about.
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And it's not what we just said.
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And so I feel that even with me, I had to start listening
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 to what you are actually saying, to what the other people that I'm inspired by are actually saying, because it's almost like we've also created a culture where people have become perfect in their imperfection, but the person's trying to say, I'm not perfect either way.
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You know, does that make sense?
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You know, it's kind of like, yeah.
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Oh my God.
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Glennon, you're such a mess.
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It's just perfect.
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Yeah.
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That's what I mean.
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Like, nothing's perfect.
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Like, you know, it's just so beautiful to live in our, and I'm very aware of,
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 All the floors I have to work on, the long, long way I have to go.
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It's one of the reasons why I go back to the monastery every single year.
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And me and my wife go there for about two to three weeks and we live with the monks again.
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Because every time I go back, they remind me of how far I have to go internally.
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 And that to me is in a beautiful, encouraging way, not in like a judgmental or a condescending way, but in an inspirational way of making me realize and an aspirational way that there is so much work for me to still do.
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And I think that there's a beautiful story that Robert Downey Jr.
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tells in an interview that he was having at Cambridge University.
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I think he talks, they're like, how does it feel to be Iron Man?
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And he goes, you know what?
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 When I come home, my kids and my wife are not like, oh my God, it's Iron Man.
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They're like, do you want to take the cat litter out?
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Like, do you want to take the trash out?
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You know, and it's like, we all need people around us who are human with us.
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And that reminds us of our normality in a good way, you know, and we can embrace that.
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So I love being reminded of how far I have to go because it makes you constantly want to learn and it makes you constantly want to grow.
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And it just makes you not bored.
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I mean, it would be boring if you kind of not had anything to work on.
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 Absolutely.
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And I love that you said that what inspires you is just people being inspiring.
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It's people with more joy.
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It's never people who are like you suck and you need to do that.
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Like that's never inspired anyone to be.
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It's just people being amazing, being joyful.
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And then you're like, I want what he's having.
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 Yeah, I think there's a great Saint Francis quote, I believe it is, and he said, I think it's him, and I'd have to check, but he said, you know, you should preach all day, you should preach all day, and then if necessary, you can open your mouth.
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Yeah, he says, yeah, and it's just, it's so good, it's so good, and I'm just like, you know, that's the hardest part, and that's really what I think is
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 is the genuine aspiration that I think we all have, is that your presence and your demeanor and your behavior naturally inspires.
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I think today, obviously, we do need to use words.
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I think there are plenty of causes and reasons for us to shout and be loud.
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And here's the interesting part that I believe you're trying to get out today and bring out, and I really appreciate you for it, is that you can shout with compassion.
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 You can be loud with affection.
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You can be direct and assertive with depth.
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You can.
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You can do all of those things.
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But when it's not done from that place, it can often sound like ego, and it can often come across from something else.
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And of course, in the beginning, a lot of it can be from pain, and that's fine.
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There's nothing wrong with that.
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 But I think that there's that line which we all have to grow and cross where our work will have more.
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And you see that the biggest changemakers on the planet, they were powered and fueled by love and compassion.
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You see that even the people who brought the biggest changes in our society, their heart was full of joy and compassion and love.
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I was reading a quote the other day because I was preparing for something by Maya Angelou.
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 And she said, hate has solved not one problem yet.
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And just realizing that we've got to fight with love and we can be compassionate and courageous and we can be direct and assertive and dynamic and we have to be, we need to be.
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