Inner Journey with Greg Friedman on Peace and Hate

We are living in a time of upheaval.  This tends to make people scared. We have nothing to fear.  We are divinity incarnate. In thiis episode Greg dives deep into some of the unrest and division  following the election and offers an alternative, love, like, appreciation and confidence.  LOVE, LOVE LOVE!!!!!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hi, this is Greg Bradon, Jack Canfield, Mariam Williamson, James
Van Praud.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hi.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Everyone, this is Neil Donald Walsh, and I'm happy to
tell you that you're listening to Inner Journey with Greg Friedman.
Stick around. Your life will change any minute.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
All right, y'all, here we go, Here we go. You
are listening to Inner Journey with Greg Friedman on k
x f M one O four seven, brought to you
from Laguna Beach, California, for Laguna Beach, California and for
the entire world. Normally, y'all know what we do. Sex, drugs,

(00:47):
rock and roll. Nope, that's not it. Sex, dream interpretation,
personal growth, the whole shooting match. We will talk about
everything and anything. However, this has been an exceptional week
and we are going to talk about the weird and
wacky state of this country and more than anything, we're

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going to talk about what's going on and then how
to get to the place of peace, understanding, respect, dialogue,
those kind of things, including Billy Freed came in and
drove this sucker into its new incarnation. What I mean

(01:33):
is Billy Freed came in to KXFM, took over at
the Helm and he is driving this station to a
whole new level. And he wrote something to all of
the staff of KXFM, and he gave me permission to
share it with you. And I think it's particularly poignant

(01:54):
and appropriate, not only for tonight's program, but for the
weird world we're living in. And we'll be back with
more Inner Journey with Greg Friedman right after this.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
When you're weary.

Speaker 6 (02:32):
And feeling small, when tie.

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Yours, I will.

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Drive the more.

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I'm more a side, oh one time get off.

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And freezious car can't be found. Note Cobery.

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All her trouble.

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Water.

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How wille.

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Me down?

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No Cobery?

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Oh trouble.

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Water?

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Howilla me down?

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When you're dn and doll? When you're on the street.

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When he.

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Informed so far, I look call.

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For you, I'll take you far.

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When dull it's called declaring Cobery. Oh the trouble.

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Water.

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How will I be down? Lovec Breek, Oh.

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Trouble Water, I will me down.

Speaker 6 (05:41):
Welcome back.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
Social media is in Her Journey with Greg Friedman, and
the website is Greg Friedman dot com. And you are
listening to the one and only k x f M
broadcast from Loginna Beach, California. For Laguna Beach, California, and
for the entire world. You know, I don't care what

(06:09):
part of the world in. You know, it's been a
wacky week in the United States. We have had an
election that has been I have seen more mourning and
grief and sorrow, and I have seen more bloodlust and

(06:29):
elation and excitement and drool. And I've seen less communication,
less ownership, less personal responsibility, and less compassion and love
and caring and understanding that I have in a long,

(06:52):
long time. And if you've listened to the show before,
you've listened to me talk of the story of the
red ants and the black ants. Red ants and black
ants are not natural enemies. But if you put them

(07:12):
in a jar and shake that jar violently and then
lay them out on the ground, they will fight each other.

Speaker 6 (07:21):
To the death. Now why I'm bringing that.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Up is because I don't care if you're talking about
in this country the red, the blue, the Democrats, the Republicans,
the Trumpers, the Harrises, the Liberals, the Conservatives, the Christians,
the Jewish, the Muslim, the Hindu, the whomever it happens
to be, or around the world, the Ukrainians and the Russians,

(07:50):
and the Israelis and the cousins, everybody all over. We
don't want to harm one another. What we want is
to flourish. And you look around and you could see

(08:10):
it evidenced in the silliest, most simplistic ways, and yet
they're so poignant. Italian restaurants next to a Jewish deli,
that's next to a Palestinian restaurant, that's next to a
Chinese restaurant. We eat the flavors of the world because

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it enhances our lives. We experience the cultures of the
world because it enhances our lives. Our differences do not
make us smaller. Our differences have the opportunity to provide
depth and breadth and understanding and compassion and a greater

(08:57):
ability to love. If we don't succumb to being shaken
violently and thinking you're my enemy, because you're not my enemy,
you're not my friend.

Speaker 6 (09:14):
You are me and I am you. And if we could.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
Look in the mirror and find that love for ourselves,
then we could look outwardly and find love for one another.
We're going to take a short break and when we
come back, I'm going to read something from Billy Freed.
Billy Freed has really taken the Helm and his steward
KXFM into its next evolution, and this letter that he

(09:45):
wrote to the staff is probably for me the greatest
evidence that we are in the appropriate hands. You are
listening to Inner Journey with Greg friedmanhim We'll be back
right after this.

Speaker 8 (10:12):
I like the way spark lady range then.

Speaker 7 (10:19):
Against your skin superground, and I won't honestly with you
in the desert guy with the billion stars all around,
because I got a piece for.

Speaker 8 (10:41):
Easy and I know you all let.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
Me down.

Speaker 6 (10:52):
Because I'm all.

Speaker 14 (10:55):
Ready standing.

Speaker 15 (10:58):
On the ground.

Speaker 8 (11:06):
And I found that a long time ago.

Speaker 6 (11:13):
What a woman can do to your soul.

Speaker 16 (11:20):
All but she.

Speaker 8 (11:21):
Can't take you anyway.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
You don't already know how to do.

Speaker 17 (11:31):
And I gotta piece, need to be and I know
you won't let me down.

Speaker 8 (11:45):
Because I'm all.

Speaker 7 (11:48):
Already standing.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
On the ground.

Speaker 7 (12:47):
I'll get this feeling, imy no have long re rain
This spoiskeys whispery in my rear fail me. I may

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never see again.

Speaker 8 (13:12):
Because I get a piece for.

Speaker 16 (13:16):
Easy Beely.

Speaker 7 (13:20):
And I know you won't let me die.

Speaker 18 (13:26):
Because I'm all.

Speaker 7 (13:29):
Already standing.

Speaker 19 (13:33):
I'm already standing then, Yes, I'm already standing.

Speaker 17 (13:46):
On the time.

Speaker 20 (13:59):
Again.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Social media is in a journey with Greg Friedman, and
you are listening to the world renowned k XFM. You know,
before break I was talking about Billy Freed. Billy Freed
has really become the steward of k XFM in its
next evolution, and he wrote something to the staff this

(14:23):
week that I felt was particular appt for our program
tonight and particularly poignant. And any of y'all that know
me know that if I love something, I'm going to
tell you and if I don't, I'm going to tell
you that. So I can't even begin to tell you

(14:46):
how incredibly appropriate this is. Billy starts out by saying, hi, everyone,
I wanted to put some thoughts down regarding the importance
of community radio post after the results were known and
so much anxiety, we question whether it was wise to

(15:08):
conduct our fundraiser the following week. This week, sorry, in
case you guys don't know, we are having k x
takeover starting tomorrow first thing in the morning, and we
decided it was the perfect time and that we very
much needed to lean into the moment because radio is
more important now than ever. I would say radio as

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a means of communication is more important now than ever before,
and while half the country is rejoicing and the other
half mired in despair, local radio can lift us all
up and unite us in what's important, community and the arts,

(15:52):
and all that noise that is generated at a national
level is just that's just occupying space in our brains.
The stuff that matters, that really affects us is how
we live in the every day. Who we surround ourselves with,
are habits, rituals, and where we focus our attention. We

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are amplifiers for the good living examples that if you
do something you love the world will be a better place.
Each one of you makes our world a better place
by committing yourself to this art form and producing weekly
shows showcasing your unique gifts and love of music to

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the world around us. Believe me, this has a cumulative
impact to lift people up, connect them to a supportive community,
and feel less alienated and alone. I wholeheartedly believe that
local radio is the best medicine for these times. And

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then he goes on to say, I encourage you in
the coming weeks to formulate your own words and tell
everyone why radio is vital in these times and beyond.
How music, talk and culture building can make people feel better,
more uplifted, and passionate about the goodness surrounding them and

(17:25):
in their fellow humans. I believe that's our role, merchants
of good feels. Let's turn up the good in goodness.

Speaker 6 (17:38):
Now, you know.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
I have said this in my own fashion for years.
This radio station does something that I have never seen before.
Every single host, every single DJ, every single person is
here because they are passionate, and this passion becomes exuberant

(18:04):
and we get to share it with you, and I
don't care what's going on in the world. When you
have somebody that is sharing their passion, their love for
life out into the world, it becomes contagious. It becomes infectious.
And that is what we try to grow here. That

(18:27):
feeling of community. Community starts here and then it goes
and it grows beyond, and beyond is where we could
touch you and where we can be touched as well. Now,
what's going to follow throughout tonight's program is going to
be a lot of stuff that could be a hard

(18:47):
look in the mirror, and it's also going to be
roadmaps for understanding connection. So I'm just going to jump
in the deep end. Here we go, and don't forget
be good humans. Everybody, everybody is a reflection of who

(19:13):
you are on this planet. And be love if you
can and enjoy the ride.

Speaker 21 (19:22):
Well it's two days after the election, and yesterday I
had a really hard time trying to pinpoint why I
don't think I've ever felt more heartbroken and hopeless as
I do now. There have been a lot of times
in my life when I've been disappointed, when I've been depressed,
when I've been angry, but I have never felt these things.

Speaker 22 (19:44):
To the depth that I felt yesterday.

Speaker 21 (19:47):
But I gave it some thought and I think I
figured it out. The reason I'm so heartbroken, destroyed, and
absolutely disgusted with the results of this election is that
it invalidates everything I have ever been taught about how
I should live my life and everything I've tried to

(20:09):
teach my kids. So it's an absolute betrayal to realize,
at fifty seven years of age that, when it comes
really down to it, over half of this country really
doesn't value the notions of being kind, being generous, loving
your neighbor, being accepting, having empathy, showing understanding, being truthful,

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being ethical In business, being sensible and level headed, not
being a bully, not being selfish, and not being a
total And because I've been taught these things my entire life,
it's really easy for me to see that Donald Trump
is a vile and despicable human being. He exhibits everything

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that I have been taught to set my sights against
in order to be a good functioning member of society.
Now over half our country supports this person and believes
that he's the one who's going to make America great. Well, hey,
here's a secret. Someone who has worked so hard at
sowing discord is never going to do anything to unite us.

(21:16):
That's his big lie, because he doesn't benefit from Americans
coming together. He and all the Tucker Carlson's and Alex
Jones out there, they profit from the rage that they're
able to manufacture. So don't tell me it's okay if
we disagree, as if this is a kin to our
individual preferences for wine or toilet paper. This is not

(21:40):
a simple disagreement. This is you telling me that the
values I've held dear my entire life have no meaning
or place in the real world. This is you telling
me that I should be shrewd, deceptive, cruel, and intolerant.
This is you telling me that the type of person
you really admire and look up to is a rich, entitled, narcissistic,

(22:03):
criminally convicted grabber. And if you're one of those guys
out there that likes Trump, because well, he says what's
on his mind. He tells it like he sees it.
He doesn't have a filter. Yeah, you know, sometimes you
need a filter. There was a time not that long
ago when being an ass wasn't cool if you were
a person and you just kept a lot of that
to yourself, and society was all the better for it.

(22:27):
But now it's all, let's make America great again. And
what I'd like to know is what specific time in
American history are you talking about? What year exactly? Because
for a lot of folks, this right now, this current
time in American history is the greatest and you know that,

(22:49):
and for some reason you don't like it. It's like
this crazy idea that giving certain rights to someone else
somehow takes some.

Speaker 20 (22:56):
Of yours away?

Speaker 21 (22:58):
Or are you just pissed that you're not special anymore
and so you can feel special again, You'll be more
than happy to drag us all back seventy years when
our black brothers and sisters had to drink from separate
water fountains, or back when if you were non straight
you had to stay in the closet. Personally, I'd like
to go back to a time when ass had to

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stay in the closet. And don't tell me, Oh, don't
be stupid, you're getting it all wrong. It's really about
none of that. It's really about the economy. As if
that excuses the behavior, you're willing to overlook all the
other fascist rhetoric, because all that's doing is showing your
wives and your daughters and minorities and LGBTQ and other

(23:43):
marginalized groups that you're completely willing to throw them under
the bus as long as you can save five cents
a gallon on gasoline. Did your stop portfolio get a
bump yesterday, Well, good for you. Maybe you can sit
offshore on your new boat and watch this country burn
to the ground. The reality is that as a country,
we have the opportunity to take the high road, to

(24:05):
stand for something higher than our basest instincts, to stand
for equality and fairness, to stand for the overall good
of everyone. But over half of y'all kept us from
taking it, and the whole world was watching. And you
know who else was watching, Your non white friends, your
non straight friends, your wives, your kids, your daughters. So

(24:30):
to anyone who actually does claim to value those higher ideals,
you know, the ones I mentioned earlier, the ones we
were taught as kids in Sunday School. Yeah, Christians, remember
Sunday School. If you claim to hold any of those
same values but are at the very same time enamored
with Trump and perfectly pleased with the outcome of the election,

(24:51):
me and millions like me deserving explanation.

Speaker 22 (24:54):
Your body, my choice.

Speaker 15 (24:57):
Multiple of my female friends and mutuals online have gotten
that comment, and.

Speaker 22 (25:01):
That's not even the most heinous among them.

Speaker 15 (25:03):
And they feel so confident to do this because the
worst of the people in our society have been emboldened
by the worst of the people in our society. And
if you think I'm talking about you, yeah, I've been
talking about you. I'm talking to every single father who
voted to make that kind of rhetoric okay to be
said about their daughter, every brother who voted to welcome
threats against their sister, every grandparent who voted to say

(25:24):
that their granddaughter's security in this world is irrelevant.

Speaker 22 (25:27):
You voted that way, and these comments are on you.

Speaker 15 (25:30):
The fact that the women you've pretended to love in
this world don't feel safe in their country and their communities,
in their own homes, that.

Speaker 22 (25:36):
Is on you.

Speaker 15 (25:37):
You have heard the vile, hateful, disgusting rhetoric from the
man's mouth himself for over a decade now. You've heard
the pleas from the women you pretended to love, from
your gay friends and family members, the black and brown
people you called friends and kept in your lives just
to convince yourselves and the people around you that you
are not a racist, vile piece of You heard them

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and you didn't even ignore them. You heard them, and
you listen, and you betrayed them. You mocked them. You
subjected them to their worst fears. You made them wake
up in a country that they don't feel like they
are a welcome part of that they are an equal
part of. You made them wake up in a country
where they cannot feel safe in their own skin.

Speaker 8 (26:17):
And that is on you.

Speaker 15 (26:18):
And for what Because despite knowing that you voted with
the white supremacists, the Christian nationalists, the self proclaimed chauviness.

Speaker 22 (26:24):
You aren't those things.

Speaker 15 (26:25):
No, No, you voted this way because you feel like
your four to h one k o' do a little
better in a tank of gas will be a little cheaper.

Speaker 22 (26:31):
It won't.

Speaker 15 (26:32):
You just think it will because you're a moron, despite
every single economist on the planet telling you it wouldn't,
and every historical economic marker in the history of the
country telling you that conservative economic policies have always tanked
to the economy. But it doesn't matter because it's how
it makes you feel. It's always been feelings over facts
for y'all, and therefore it was okay for you to
vote with literal hate groups because it feel like a

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cart and eggs will cost a little less. Because you
claim you voted for that reason, that makes you feel
like you're better than those literal hate groups you voted with,
But you're not. You're worse. You were disingenuous. At least
they wear their hate on their arm quite literally. Yeah,
I remember, you voted with the people who wear red armbands. Yeah,
they're horrible people, but at least they're honest about it
and don't try to cover it up with some bullshit
about economics.

Speaker 22 (27:11):
They don't understand. And it's not just old white guys.

Speaker 15 (27:13):
It's the fifty five percent of white women who chose
to forsake their daughters and granddaughters.

Speaker 22 (27:18):
What was it?

Speaker 15 (27:19):
Did y'all just decide that making your own decisions without
a man's approval was a burden.

Speaker 22 (27:22):
You didn't want to tax them?

Speaker 15 (27:23):
With the fifty five percent of Latino men, what the
being deported was such an exciting prospect for you didn't
have to vote for it. You just could have flefft.
You really hate your countrymen that much? You got yours?
What is the logic behind it? And gen X, my god,
was the whole gen X rise thing just about rising
to the position of super boomer. My god, you've really
outdid yourself and every other demographic out there.

Speaker 22 (27:46):
Fifty six percent of gen xers voted for this. We
get it.

Speaker 15 (27:49):
You were the forgotten middle child, but you really need
mommy and daddy's attention. This being bad, well, good job.
The boomers were a fifty to fifty split. You out
boomered and honestly, out of everybody, you guys should.

Speaker 22 (27:58):
Be the most to shame. All I've sat here and.

Speaker 15 (28:00):
Bitch about how bad the boomers were this whole time,
only to become the new and improved version.

Speaker 22 (28:04):
Congratulations, you became your parents. But worse, you all have
kids in school who are going.

Speaker 15 (28:08):
To suffer from the funding cuts to educations and services
that they need. You guys have the more diverse family
and friend dynamics of people who are going to suffer
because of the way you voted. You have aging parents
who are going to suffer from the cuts to Social
Security and medicare in the VA. But ultimately, that joke's
going to be on you now, isn't it, Because how
long is it before you guys are going to start
trying to collect That isn't going to be there now
because y'all voted against it. You see, us millennials, we

(28:29):
knew we were never going to get it. We've been
trying to drink ourselves to death before we get to
that point. But you guys had a chance, and you
you decided to pull up and ladder.

Speaker 22 (28:36):
You forgot you had to climb. You guys burned the
boost down that you still have to live in. But
I'm sure you all be fine.

Speaker 15 (28:41):
Let's just go hang out in the woods and drink
from a garden hose and never shut them about it.

Speaker 22 (28:44):
But you know, it's not even you who are the
worst of us.

Speaker 15 (28:47):
It is it is our fault is It is truly
democrats who deserve the most iron here. It's the sixteen
million of them that couldn't be bothered filling out a
few bubbles was just too much to ask. Huh were
you worried picking up that pen was going to flare
up your carpal tunnel activate your arthritis?

Speaker 22 (29:00):
You know that famous Martin Emuler poem.

Speaker 15 (29:02):
You know, First they came for the socialists, and I
did nothing for I was not a socialist. Then they
came for the trade unionists, and I did nothing because
I was not in a union.

Speaker 22 (29:08):
You know the poem'm talking about, right?

Speaker 8 (29:09):
You know how it ends?

Speaker 17 (29:10):
Well?

Speaker 22 (29:10):
If not, you should look it up because it's about you.

Speaker 15 (29:13):
I sat there and watched this all happen on election night,
next to a man who knocked on three thousand doors
to try to make your life better.

Speaker 22 (29:22):
I sat there with a gay man who used his truck.

Speaker 15 (29:24):
To pull our local DFL prayed for, and a bunch
of rural county parades to screams of hate and harassment.
Because these people are truly the most hateful, vile people
in the world.

Speaker 23 (29:34):
I know.

Speaker 22 (29:34):
I marched in one prey.

Speaker 15 (29:35):
It wasn't even that bad, and it was miserable he
subjected himself to that to try to make.

Speaker 22 (29:41):
Your life better.

Speaker 15 (29:43):
I sat in a room full of people who poured
their blood, sweat, tears and money out to try to
make your life better. And it was all for nothing
because you couldn't be bothered to get off the funk couch.
But whatever, we got what we voted for. Right, the
election wasn't ready. The electoral College can't be blamed this
time around. And all this time I thought they were
the delusional ones, but they were right.

Speaker 18 (30:00):
It was us.

Speaker 15 (30:01):
We were delusional to believe that this country wasn't full
of selfish, lazy, apathetic, and hateful people.

Speaker 22 (30:05):
Congrats, you guys got what you wanted.

Speaker 15 (30:07):
You control all three branches of government, and well, I
know that you have a complete inability to take responsibility
for anything. You can't blame anybody else for whatever happens next.
So when your Social Security and your Medicare and your
Medicaid get cut, when they roll out a federal abortion band,
when they decide that gay marriage an interracial marriage is unconstitutional,
when they cut funding for your child's schools and tell
them what books they aren't allowed to read. When grocery
skyrocket because there's nobody left to pick the produce that's

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rotting in the field and they've cut all of the
egg subsidies. When they start restricting divorce or force women
to stay in abusive marriages. When your gay friends get
beat to death in a bar just for being who
they are and their murders aren't prosecuted.

Speaker 22 (30:40):
The next time somebody.

Speaker 15 (30:40):
Gets shot in the street for walking well black and
the cop.

Speaker 22 (30:43):
Gets a promotion.

Speaker 15 (30:44):
When massive tariff skyrocket all of our consumer prices in
the economy tanks, when the retirement age is raised to
seventy five and you just missed the cutoff, all those
winds will be yours to take credit for congraduate flations.
For all the people telling us that we're being over dramatic,
that we need to grow up.

Speaker 22 (30:57):
You know what's sure, We can pretend that women have
it all ready.

Speaker 15 (31:00):
He died from not being able to get the care
that they need. For the policies that you just voted for. Again,
we can pretend that all of the massive consequences of
Trump's trade war and tax plan and deal with Oatpeck
weren't really that bad. We can pretend that all of
the children who had decided living in this world anymore
wasn't for them because they weren't accepted or it wasn't
even legal for them to be who they wanted to be.
Just don't matter and world being over dramatic, And keep

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that in mind when you're upset that your daughter won't
take your phone calls because of the choices you've made,
that it's.

Speaker 22 (31:24):
Not that big a deal and you are just being
over dramatic.

Speaker 15 (31:26):
Remember the soul crushing loneliness of your grandkids deciding that
your decisions make you too toxic for their life is
just you being over dramatic.

Speaker 22 (31:33):
Remember that when you're.

Speaker 15 (31:34):
Upset because you cooked all this food and nobody showed
up for Thanksgiving because your gay siblings don't feel comfortable
being around you anymore. And remember next time you bitch
to your friends that you sit alone every night because
you can't find a good woman to swipe right. Once again,
you're being just a little over dramatic. Enjoy your wins, guys.
I hope they are everything you hoped they would be
because you sure as hell got it at the expense
of a lot of people that you pretended you care about.

Speaker 20 (31:59):
Hian great and you're looking to inner journey with Greg Freeman.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
I played those two clips for a very specific reason.
They illustrate the pain, They illustrate the sorrow, illustrate the
fear that is cast over a lot of people that
have spoken to from the left and on the right.

(32:33):
I've seen a bloodlust. I've seen almost drools of glee
and threats and cries to lock everybody up and to
just start concentration camps and do all of these things
that are inhumane. And I wanted you to hear the pain.

(32:57):
I wanted you to hear the pain because maybe if
we could touch the center of our own sorrow and
then understand another's sorrow in such a way that we
don't necessarily have to agree, but we can have compassion for,

(33:19):
we can have understanding for, and yeah, we could even
have love.

Speaker 6 (33:26):
For now.

Speaker 24 (33:40):
I've been happy dating, thinking about the good things to
come and would it could be something good has begun
a while. I've been smiling, namely dreaming about the world
of one and believe it could.

Speaker 17 (34:00):
Be some day it's.

Speaker 24 (34:02):
Going to come out.

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On the air, the darks their eyes.

Speaker 9 (34:07):
A peace strain or peace train, take this country from
take the home again. God been smiling lady.

Speaker 25 (34:18):
Thinking about the good things to come, and I believe
it could be something good has begun.

Speaker 9 (34:27):
A strange sound and loud the d the peace, Come on.

Speaker 6 (34:37):
The peace strings.

Speaker 9 (34:39):
These strain the role of.

Speaker 10 (34:42):
Everything found, these things.

Speaker 9 (34:48):
Come on the thief.

Speaker 26 (34:51):
Catch your bags together and can bring your good friends to.

Speaker 25 (34:56):
Because it's scattering ever.

Speaker 9 (35:00):
It soon will be really a come and join the little.

Speaker 26 (35:05):
Less about you.

Speaker 7 (35:08):
And it's getting mirror so that.

Speaker 9 (35:12):
We'll all be true for these strains.

Speaker 16 (35:15):
Sound thou shut up?

Speaker 9 (35:18):
Thank comong the stranger.

Speaker 13 (35:37):
Now.

Speaker 24 (35:37):
I've been crying late thinking about the world.

Speaker 8 (35:41):
That it is.

Speaker 9 (35:43):
Why must we go home?

Speaker 6 (35:46):
What can you live?

Speaker 8 (35:48):
And live?

Speaker 26 (35:49):
Because I'm on the earth dots therein to be strange
or pastain this country. Contain me home my peace strange
sound and down the side of the stank.

Speaker 20 (36:10):
Come off the.

Speaker 7 (36:11):
Beast's peace strain. No, do you know everyone count.

Speaker 25 (36:24):
You come off peace straight? Hey, yes, it's a peace.

Speaker 8 (36:38):
Come off the past strain.

Speaker 11 (37:00):
Doctor Marcius thro to hear, And today I want to
talk about hate. There's been a lot of hate in
the news these days, and it's a very powerful emotion
and I think it's really important to kind of break
it down. So what is causing people to feel hate? Well,
it's for basic emotions fear, greed, insecurity, and competitiveness, and

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it all comes down to a lack of self love.
Because when we love ourselves, we don't feel the need
to compete with anyone else or to be superior to
anyone else.

Speaker 7 (37:29):
We feel good enough.

Speaker 11 (37:30):
Just within ourselves and we don't need to compare ourselves
or contrast ourselves or put anyone down. However, when we
feel insecure and inadequate, we feel the need to put
someone else down in order to bring ourselves up. And
that's where hatred comes in. We hate other people or
other groups because we need to feel superior, because if
we feel superior to them, then we can feel better

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about ourselves. We think, of course, it doesn't work, as
all of these psychological defense mechanisms don't work, but we
keep doing it anyway. In the pastological hope i e.
The false hope that one day it might be successful.
So we look at a group and we're competitive with
this group because we feel like we don't have enough
in our group, you know, maybe there are not enough resources.

Speaker 7 (38:12):
In our mind, that's.

Speaker 11 (38:13):
Obviously not true, because just like when we're children and
our parents tell us to learn how to share, we
can share as adults. But when we are filled with
insecurity and competitiveness, we believe that there's not enough to
go around, and so we get angry at this other
group and we learn to hate them. Now, if we
were able to love ourselves enough, then we could love

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the other people in the world, and we could share
all the resources, and there wouldn't be any more war,
and there certainly wouldn't be any more patren But we
have difficulty as adults sharing, even though children are taught
to share. When we become adults, we want everything for ourselves.
And again that comes from a sense of insecurity and inadequacy,
because when we love ourselves enough, we don't need more stuff.

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We don't need more money, we don't need more power,
we don't need more fame. When we feel good about
ourselves within deep within, we don't need all the external
trappings to make us feel better about ourselves, and we
certainly don't need to keep it all for ourselves.

Speaker 27 (39:11):
So hatred comes when.

Speaker 11 (39:12):
We have a lack of self love, we feel a
sense of greed. We want it all, and we need
to compete with others for their share because we don't
want to share what we have with anyone else, and
we certainly don't want them to have anything that we
might not have, And so it really becomes this vicious
circle where the lack of self love creates more competitiveness
and greed and hatred. And then, of course, because it

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never makes us feel good, we hate more, thinking that
if only we just hate more, that will make us
feel better.

Speaker 16 (39:40):
But as anyone can tell, the.

Speaker 11 (39:42):
More we hate, the worse we feel, and the more
we love ourselves and each other, the better we feel.
The solution to hatred is not having more stuff, putting
more people down to feel better about ourselves, competing more
with others, comparing ourselves with others, or indulging in greed. No,
the secret is loving ourselves and letting that love for

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ourselves overflow outward too others, and that love will make
everything better for ourselves and for the world. So hatred
is the opposite of love, of course, but they come
from the same place. They come from the presence or
absence of self love. When we love ourselves, we are
able to love others. When we don't love ourselves enough,

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then we don't love others and we start to hate.
When we love ourselves, we feel like we have enough.
When we don't love ourselves, we feel like there's never enough.
When we love ourselves, we don't need to put somebody
else down to put ourselves up. When we don't love
ourselves enough, we feel we believe that if we put
somebody down, we're going to feel better about ourselves, but
of course it doesn't work. So all these terrible acts

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of hatred going on in the world these days are
coming from people who don't love themselves enough.

Speaker 28 (40:52):
And it makes me very sad because it's such a
simple thing. All we need is to help people love
themselves more. We need to show people well that they
don't have to be perfect to be lovable. They don't
have to even be successful or accomplished.

Speaker 11 (41:05):
They just have to know that everyone has it within
themselves to have a self love. Everyone can love and
accept themselves and have compassion for themselves just because just
like when we have a little child, we don't look
at the child and go, you know, I'm going to
love you conditionally on your performance. No, we love them
just because, and we need to do that with ourselves
and with each other. We need to just love one another.

(41:29):
This is Marcia Sarota. Oh, there's my kittie. This is
doctor Marcia Sarota talking about love and hate and hoping
that you can learn to love yourselves and feel good
about who you are just because.

Speaker 4 (41:45):
And I say it over and over and over, there
is no other. We are all one another when you
look in the mirror. If you could find that love
for yourself, not because you're ideal, not because your excellent ad,

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guitar or mathematics or anything, just because you are and
that makes you perfect, Not ideal, but perfect. And if
you could accept and receive the love of who you are,
then you have the ability to turn that love outward

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and make that energy contagious, make that love become viral.
And that's why I do this show. If you were
gonna sum it up, make love viral, and we're just
gonna keep on rolling.

Speaker 24 (42:54):
Ladies and gentlemen, Hi, this is James Van Probb and
you're listening to Inner Journey with Enjoy.

Speaker 14 (43:02):
Hello.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
There, Hatred. We see it everywhere in the world today.
It's the internal condition that leads to things like prejudice
and genocide and war. Hatred is essentially the emotional state
of deep and intense dislike, aversion, or even hostility towards

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someone or something. It's perhaps the most extreme form of
vibrational resistance to something. It is resistance to the degree
that one wishes to destroy the thing that is perceived
to be causing the unhappiness within them. But what is
it exactly that causes hatred. Hatred is caused by the

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perception of threat. What is a threat? A threat is
you facing something that's going to diminish something that you
hold dear. A threat is something that's likely to cause
danger or damage. Another words, it's something that's likely to
hurt you. When a person feels as if they're in
the presence of a threat, they feel fear, and that

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fear is quickly converted to anger, which is a state
of defense. You can think of anger and aversion as
a person's attempt to keep their boundaries intact so as
to stay safe. The person tries to push that thing
away from itself or somehow eradicate the threat. Hatred is
the human ego in a state of defense when we

(44:26):
find ourselves hating something, the question we have to ask
ourselves is what threat does this thing pose to me?
How is it hurting me? And what am I afraid of?
For example, a woman may feel hatred towards another woman
who's beautiful, and upon further reflection, she might find that
that woman is a threat to her own sense of

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self esteem her self concept. Or for example, a man
may start to feel hatred towards another man that's flirting
with his girlfriend, but upon deeper reflection, he finds that
it's because that man poses a threat his sense of
security and connection within his relationship. Or a group of
people might feel hatred towards another group of people because

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pretend they have different religious views. Upon deeper reflection, one
of those religious groups might find that the reason they
hate the other is because of the belief they hold
about them. They may think that this other group is
evil or wicked, and so their beliefs about this other
person makes them think that that other group is a

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threat to life on earth, a threat to happiness. The
safer we feel, the less we hate. The problem is
that hatred tends to snowball. Essentially, this is how it goes.
We perceive a threat. First, our reaction to that threat
is to push it away from us, so we start
to feel hatred. And because we're focused at that thing

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with an attitude of hatred as if it's a threat,
what happens in a law of attraction based universe. We
attract more proof that they are a threat, which makes
us more afraid, which makes us hate them more, which
makes us manifest more proof that they're dangerous, which makes
us hate them more. And it just keeps going and going,
until finally we have so much hate inside of us
that we can do nothing except for try to destroy

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that other thing. Some of us find ourselves more frequently
on the receiving end of hatred. I'm one of those examples.
This is especially true if we're one of those people
who grow up in a condition which led us to shame.
That means, in our childhood, the belief which we inherited
from the people who were raising us was that there's
something about us that's bad or wrong. We are a

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perfect vibrational match to people who think that exact same
thing about us. We tend to take this hatred personally.
We make the hatred that we receive from others mean
that there must be something bad about us. This pushes
us into self self hatred and self distrust. But we
need to see that the hatred does not exist because
we're bad. It doesn't even exist because they're right about us.

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Hatred exists because the other person perceives us to be
a threat to something they treasure and are therefore attached to.
So what we have to ask ourselves is what threat
do they perceive me posing to them? For example, we
may discover that somebody feels as if we're a threat
to their physical safety, or we're a threat to their
well being, or we're a threat to their relationship, or

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we are a threat to how they want the world
to look, or we're a threat to the beliefs which
are keeping them safe, or we're a threat to their
sense of self esteem. It's much easier to feel better
about someone or something that's hating us if we can
develop compassion. Now, I realize this can be a stretch.
Feeling compassion for someone who hates you and who is
potentially actively trying to destroy your life is quite difficult,

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But remember that what you're after here is not letting
them off the hook for hating you or doing the
things they're doing. What you're trying to look to do
is to feel better yourself. And obviously, when someone starts
hating you, you start perceiving them as a threat. So
one of the best ways to get out of that
vicious cycle is to start focusing on the pain that
is in fact causing their hatred. Where is that fear

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and that scared little child, essentially, who is completely convinced
that you're a threat to them. In other words, we
don't feel the need to defend ourselves as violently because
it really isn't about us. It's about the fact that
something about us makes them feel threatened. Perhaps we can
even help them feel less threatened about whatever they feel
threatened about relative to us. When it comes to hatred,

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regardless of whether it's us hating them or them hating us,
what we have to do is to address the fear
and the pain that is underneath that hatred. We have
to access the vulnerability. So when you encounter hate, I
want you to do three things. Number One, you need
to question the threat. This means you got to get

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present to what threat this person poses or what threat
they think you pose.

Speaker 14 (48:55):
You've got to be.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Really aware of what that is first, and you have
to question it is this genuinely a threat? Is that
a threat they actually pose to me? Is it a
threat I actually pose to them? We also have to
explore and loosen our negative attachment to the thing we
think they pose a threat to. Obviously, if we start
hating somebody or if they start hating us, it's about

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the fact that we feel like we have to defend
something which we're attached to. This is a perfect opportunity
for those of us who are in the spiritual practice
to question our level of attachment. Obviously, I've identified with
this particular thing so strongly that that in and of
itself is causing me pain. Two, find non reactive conscious

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strategies to diminish the potential threat without causing the other
person harm. For example, let's say that the other person
poses a threat to my self esteem. How could I
go about decreasing that threat to my self esteem without
causing them pain? Step three, increase your feeling of safety

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and integrity. Obviously, you're defending something that you think you're
going to lose or that's going to be diminished by
the person who is hating you or who you are hating.
So what I want you to do is to think
any thought that would cause you to feel better about
this situation, about whatever it is they pose a threat to.
Any form of positive focus about the situation we feel

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threatened by will diminish the feeling of threat. By doing
these things, we will experience a decrease in hatred. At
its rute, hatred occurs because we feel powerless to the
way we feel. Why is it that we don't want
to lose that thing we think they're a threat to
because we would feel bad if we did so. At
the core, hatred is about the fact that we feel

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powerless to feeling bad. So what can you do about it?
Prove to yourself that you're not powerless to the way
that you feel. Any amount of focus on anything or
any action you take that makes you feel better or
more secure relative to the thing you think you are
going to lose will cause you to feel better. When

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we hate, we feel bad and don't think we can
feel good as long as the think we think caused
us to feel bad, the threat still exists. Taking our
focus off those things that cause us to feel bad
and placing our focus on things that cause us to
feel good allows us to see that we do have
the ability to alter how we feel deliberately. This empowerment
helps us to see that we aren't just at the
mercy of the world, and thus we feel less threatened

(51:27):
by things, and thus we don't feel hate towards them.
For example, let's say that you feel hatred towards your
boyfriend's X. When you ask yourself the question what threat
does this pose to me? You might come up with
an answer like, she really poses a threat to the
connection that I feel with this person. I feel like
if she's in the picture, I'm going to lose my

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connection with him. First you question a threat, Is she
really a threat to your connection with your boyfriend? If so,
how you may want to do Byron Katy's process called
the Work on this Idea. Then you may want to
explore how the attachment you have to your connection to
your boyfriend is painful and therefore negative, because what you

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really want is a man who will choose you in
whom wants you enough that you don't have to work
hard to earn closeness with him. So it may even
be better to have his closeness tested in this way,
so you can either see his true colors or develop
real security in his connection to you. Then one of
the action steps you could take is to have a
vulnerable and open and honest conversation with your boyfriend about

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the threat that you feel this ex of his poses
to your relationship. Then if you want to go further
than that, you can begin to positively focus how is
your connection secure with this boyfriend? How can you be
sure that it's going to be maintained regardless of whether
she's there or not. This world functions like a mirror,

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which means that if we wish to end hatred in
the world, we have to first end it within ourselves.
That means we have to address the aspect of us
that it hates. But I will give you a tip.
The aspect of you that hates is not malevolent, and
it is not evil. It is the aspect of you
that is a small, crying child that feels powerless to

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the world around it, powerless to the way it feels.
This child within you is the one that needs the attention.
And when I say child, I don't want you to
then go into the space where you're thinking that a
child is less evolved, or that a child essentially is
not as spiritually enlightened as an adult because we love

(53:37):
to do that. We love to be like, oh, it's
the underdog and it's sort of like lower on the
value scale than my adult self. That's not the way
that the inner child works. But this is an aspect
of you that is deeply in pain, and so it
needs your conscious attention, your conscious focus. It needs you
to know what it's scared of, and it needs you
to help it to feel better about what it's scared of.

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This small child is terrified, in a state of fear,
and is reacting by trying to push the thing it's
afraid of away from itself. We need to feel love
and compassion towards this aspect of us that's feeling threatened,
and by doing this we create more safety for ourselves
and this subdues the hatred. Now, before I continue, I

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have to say, then, in the spiritual feels hatred has
become a little bit like anger. It's not okay to
admit that you feel that way. In fact, you're so
not spiritually enlightened if you hate anything, So just cram
that deep down inside and never admit to it. But
here's the thing. It's natural when we feel threatened to

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basically jump into a space of hate. So it would
be very rare to meet somebody who is genuinely free
of all hatred. And it's really really damaging for you
to bury that aspect of you deep down inside and
to stay unconscious of it and not admit to it.
Suppressed hatred reaks havoc on your body, and it wreaks
havoc on the world at large. So admit to what

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you hate. Even if you're one of those spiritual people
who is all about the love, light and communion on
this planet, it's really important for you to actually become
conscious of the hatred that you have so that you
can find some resolution to it instead of just trying
to convince yourself it doesn't exist. On the other hand,
when we are not in the practice of suppressing our hatred,

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but we are also not conscious enough to work with
it directly, we mistake the fight or flight peque and
energy we feel in hatred for power. Hatred is the
opposite of power. It only occurs when we feel powerless
to a threat, when we become reactive. Instead of addressing
the internal world in a state of fear, we try
to eradicate the threat itself. We rage war against it

(55:49):
in order to try to get rid of it. This
does not work in a universe based in the law
of attraction, where whatever you resist persists. This is exactly
why people in the media say that bad press is
good press. Hating someone feels bad. It doesn't just feel
bad to the person who's on the receiving end of
our hate. It feels bad to us. We have a

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tendency of thinking when we feel hatred that whatever we
are perceiving to be a threat is what is causing
that feeling within us, But in fact, it's just our
reaction to something we perceive to be a threat. That
means that hatred is not really anybody else's problem. It's
our problem, and it deserves our conscious attention. Even if

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they have done things to justify the hatred, the one
power that we do have is to deal with our
reaction to them and what they did. This is good
news because it means we are not powerless to our hatred.
Hatred is a cover emotion for feeling pain, hurt, and fear.

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So address that pain, that hurt, and that fear, and
then consciously focus on anything that causes you to feel safer,
to feel joy, to feel that state of integrity and
watch your hatred disappear.

Speaker 14 (57:14):
Have a good week.

Speaker 6 (57:15):
That was Teal Swan.

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guest here. We've had some of the greatest mind's hearts
and souls alive and tonight I felt it was important
when these weird and tumultuous times to remember love and

(57:41):
to remember and to reinforce the tools to help us
get to love. And we will see you on the
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am a guide. For years, I have taken people all
over the world to work with indigenous elders and exotic
locations only to show you that you are the magic,
and we just help you realize it.

Speaker 16 (01:00:15):
It could be.

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
Terrifying to look at our fears and sometimes even more
so to look at our strengths. I take you out
into the wild, into the unknown, foreign inner journey.

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People all made and tried it on my side.

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Disclaim.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
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Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
Now I don't say this often, but if you didn't
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Speaker 11 (01:03:53):
This is.

Speaker 6 (01:03:55):
This is important to me personally.

Speaker 4 (01:03:59):
And it is because there have been so many factions,
there's been so many divides, there's been so much disregard
of humanity, and that.

Speaker 6 (01:04:18):
Is a very.

Speaker 4 (01:04:21):
Precarious place to live. Instead, I want to be the voice,
a voice, and maybe your voice will join us. And
maybe your voice will join us, and through those voices
we can recognize we can be love, We could be

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ourselves and be accepted not because we're perfect, not because
we agree, but simply because we accept ourselves and we're
willing to accept another. Because til Swan was just talking
about this, we perceive so much as a threat when
actually at the end of the day, at the end

(01:05:07):
of the day, and oh, I'm going to hear about this,
but the truth of the matter is a threat is
only an illusion because it's just a perception. And what
we need to do is understand that we are safe,
we're sovereign. We can love ourselves and trust ourselves.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
And.

Speaker 4 (01:05:34):
We don't have to worry, and we don't have to
feel afraid, because when we feel afraid, that's when the
problems start, false evidence appearing real, fear, false evidence appearing real. Now,
I'm going to shift gears a little bit because the

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next speaker that we're going to have up is is
Bernie Sanders, and I'm going to tell you the truth.
I have very little use for ninety eight percent or
more of the politicians in the entire world because I
have found, especially as of late, that I don't care

(01:06:20):
if you're red or blue. Your politician is bought and
paid for by the same corporation, no matter which side
of the aisle they stand on. And there are very
very few people out there that are truly standing not
only for what they believe in, but more importantly, what

(01:06:42):
they were actually hired to do in the first place,
which is stand up to support, to care for their constituents,
to care for the people that they were hired to
shepherd over, to look out for, to make sure they're
health and well being is accounted, accommodated, and incorporated into

(01:07:06):
the dynamic. And I don't think that's too much to ask,
and a lot of people do. Bernie, to me, has
been a man that said it straightforwardly, easily, understandably, and

(01:07:30):
with compassion, care and consideration for his fellow man and woman.
Tell me what y'all think.

Speaker 29 (01:07:39):
Ex Senator Bernie Sanders issued a scathing statement after the
vice president's loss in what he called a disastrous campaign, saying, quote,
it should come as no great surprise that a Democratic
party which has abandoned working class people would find that
the working class has abandoned them. And Independent Senator Bernie
Sanders of Vermont joins me up now, Senator Standerds, welcome back.

Speaker 14 (01:08:01):
To meet the press.

Speaker 29 (01:08:04):
Thank you for having me, Thank you for being here
on this Sunday after election day. Let's start right there.
Your criticism incredibly direct. You say you think the Democratic
Party has quote abandoned the working class. How exactly do
you think Democrats have abandoned the working class center.

Speaker 20 (01:08:22):
Look, the working people of this country are extremely angry.
They have a right to be angry. In the richest
country in the history of the world.

Speaker 30 (01:08:33):
Today, the people on top are doing phenomenally well, while
sixty percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and
millions of families worry that their kids are actually going
to have a lower standard of living than they do.
You got the top one percent owning more wealth than
the bottom ninety percent.

Speaker 20 (01:08:55):
We're the only.

Speaker 30 (01:08:55):
Major country not to guarantee healthcare to all of our people.
Twenty five percent of our seniors are trying to live
on fifteen thousand dollars a year or less. We have
the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major
country on Earth, and the gap between the people on
top and everybody else is getting wider and wider and

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then Kristen, on top of all of that, we got
a corrupt campaign finance system which allows billionaires to buy elections.
So if you're an average work around there, you're saying, hey,
I'm working longer and longer hours, go nowhere in a hurry,
worried about my kids. And yet the people on top
I've never had it so good. Where is the Democratic Party?

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Are they prepared to stand up to these powerful corporate interests,
raise the minimum wage, fight for healthcare for all people,
make sure that all of our kids get the quality
education that they need, expand social security. Are they prepared
to do those things? That's the issue that we have
to address.

Speaker 29 (01:09:55):
Well, as you know, your statement was met with some
sharp res as well. This is what Speaker Amerida Nancy
Pelosi had to say. Take a look.

Speaker 14 (01:10:03):
I'll get your reaction.

Speaker 22 (01:10:04):
On the other side, Bernie Sanders has not won.

Speaker 31 (01:10:09):
Let me, with all due respect, and I have a
great deal of respect for him for what he stands for,
but I don't respect him saying that the Democratic Party
has abandoned the working class family.

Speaker 29 (01:10:20):
Senator, how do you respond to Nancy Pelosi?

Speaker 30 (01:10:24):
Well, Nancy's a friend of mine, We've worked together on
many issues.

Speaker 20 (01:10:28):
But here is reality. I have to say to Nancy
in the Senate.

Speaker 30 (01:10:32):
In the last two years, we have not even brought
forth legislation to raise the minimum wage to a living wage,
despite the fact that some twenty million people in this
country are working for less than fifteen dollars an hour.

Speaker 20 (01:10:47):
In America today, we have not broughked in the Senate.

Speaker 30 (01:10:49):
We have not brought to the floor the pro Act
to make it easier for workers to join unions. We're
not talking about the find benefit pension plans so that
our elderly can retire with security. We're not talking about
lifting the cap on Social Security so that we can
extend the solvency of Social Security and raised benefits. Bottom line,

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if you're an average working person out there, do you
really think that the Democratic Party is going to the mats,
taking on powerful special interest and fighting for you.

Speaker 20 (01:11:20):
I think the overwhelming answer is no, and that is
what has got to change.

Speaker 11 (01:11:25):
Sena.

Speaker 29 (01:11:25):
Let me zoom out and just ask you about these results.
You've heard some of the reaction throughout the Democratic Party.
How much do you personally blame President Biden for this loss?

Speaker 30 (01:11:38):
President Biden, when he came into office said that he
would be the most progressive president since fd Off, and
I think on domestic issues, not foreign policy. On domestic issues,
he has kept his word, and the agenda that he
has pushed through has been an extraordinarily strong one. But
that agenda has got to be placed within the overall

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cut text of American society today, and that American society
today is one in which tens of millions of working
families and elderly people are struggling while the people on
top have never.

Speaker 20 (01:12:13):
Had it so good.

Speaker 29 (01:12:14):
But Centa should he have gotten out of the race
more quickly as some are arguing.

Speaker 30 (01:12:19):
I'm not going to I supported him because I think
his agenda was a strong agenda, a working class agenda.
I'm not going to look backwards. Kamala ran a strong campaign.
She did everything that she could. She decisively won the debate.
So to me, it's not just about the campaign. It's
about what does the Democratic Party stand for? Do ordinary

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people say, yeah, that is a party that is fighting
for my interest and prepared to take on the big
money interest who control the economic and political life of
the country.

Speaker 20 (01:12:48):
We're talk to me what the issue is.

Speaker 29 (01:12:49):
Yeah, We're talking a lot about the economics. You've talked
about how the Democratic Party is out of touch when
it comes to economic issues. Some Democrats are saying it's
not just economic issues, it's culture issues as well. Here's
what Democratic strategist James Carville had to say.

Speaker 32 (01:13:04):
Take a look what killed the Democrats, what killed Biden
was a sense of disorder, and part of the sense
of disorder was the unfortunate events of what I would
refer to as the woke era.

Speaker 29 (01:13:22):
Has the Democratic Party's focus on identity politics gone too far?

Speaker 8 (01:13:26):
Senator?

Speaker 20 (01:13:30):
Let me answer it this way.

Speaker 30 (01:13:31):
I think you if the Democratic the Democratic Party must
continue to stand up against all forms of bigotry.

Speaker 20 (01:13:40):
And Democrats should hold.

Speaker 30 (01:13:42):
Their head high and saying we led the fight for
women's rights and to protect the women's constitutional rights for abortion,
we read the fight for civil rights, for gay rights.
That is something we should be proud of. But it's
not either or christ and this is the problem. You
can do both. You could say that I'm for raising

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the minimum wage, two a living wage, guarantee health care
for all people, expanding social severity, and by the way,
i also support a woman's right to control her own body,
et cetera.

Speaker 20 (01:14:13):
It's not either or it's going forward in both directions.

Speaker 29 (01:14:16):
You know, I've been speaking to some Democrats who are
concerned because now President Electrump has beaten two women candidates,
and their concern is that it will to nominate a
woman candidate.

Speaker 14 (01:14:29):
In the future.

Speaker 29 (01:14:30):
Do you share that concern, Senator.

Speaker 30 (01:14:33):
No, I don't. I think it's not a question. Look,
I'm not going to deny that there is sexism in
this country. That is racism, that's homophobia.

Speaker 20 (01:14:41):
It's there.

Speaker 30 (01:14:42):
But on the other hand, I think what the American
people want to support, whether it's a woman, a man
of black, or a white or Latina, whatever, if they
want to support somebody who is standing up Kristen and
fighting for them. People are in pain, people are hurting.
They can't afford to go to a doctor, they can't
afford to send their kids to childcare or to college.

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They're worried about future generations and what kind of standard
of living they will have. Here is the bottom line,
and it has to be dealt with. You've got an
economy today doing phenomenally well for the people on top.
It is not working for the working class, all right,
How do we address those issues? And in the richest
country on the history of the world, create an economy

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that works for all.

Speaker 20 (01:15:26):
That is the issue.

Speaker 30 (01:15:28):
And by the way, what Trump did in his election
is to say, I know that you're hurting, and the
reason is they got millions of people coming across the
board illegal They're eating your dogs, they're eating your cats.
He gave an explanation happened to be a pretty crazy explanation. Yes,
we have a strength in the waters, but that is
not going to raise wages for working people, or provide

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healthcare or people. The Democrats need an explanation, and that
explanation is corporate greed and the power of the billionaire class.
I know that's uncomfortable for people in the democratic quality
some people, but that is the issue we have to address.

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then there's no lack, there's nothing missing, there's nothing that
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to get together. Chadle a want you other right now.

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Speaker 3 (01:23:27):
Alright everyone, This is Neil Donald Walsh and I'm happy
to tell you that you're listening to Inner Journey with
Greig Friedman stick around. Your life could change any minute.

Speaker 4 (01:23:43):
It's a very very very simple thing if we allow
it to be. Fall in love with yourself, respect yourself,
like yourself, not because you're ideal, because perfection is the
process and you are perfect. And then once you can

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relax into who you are, then we can turn that outside.

Speaker 6 (01:24:10):
And express that into the world.

Speaker 4 (01:24:13):
And that's over and over and over in as many
different ways as I can think of what I'm going
to be communicating to you tonight and forever. You are
listening to in a Journey on k XFM.

Speaker 34 (01:24:33):
Heat is a pretty strong word, but it's probably a
word that we hear pretty much every day. But why
do people experience hatred? And what can psychology til us
about hatred? What's up, guys, Welcome to another week's episode

(01:24:55):
of Get Site, and this week we're going to be
looking at the psychology of hate. So the first question
to ask exactly is why do we hate? Hate is
complex and in today's society, is absolutely everywhere. But what
exactly can psychology tell us about why people experience hatred and.

Speaker 27 (01:25:10):
Why they hate?

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
Will?

Speaker 34 (01:25:11):
Psychological research are showing time and time again that we
hate things that are actually different from us. In psychology,
there's a theory called the group outgroup theory, and this
illustrates that when someone or they are in an outgroup
or the outgroup themselves does something that we don't like,
we turn to our in group for survival. And theorists
behind the group outgroup theory state that we actually have

(01:25:32):
two separate factors that cause us to experience hatred. Those
two factors are love and aggression. We have love for
our in group, but we might experience aggression towards the outgroup. Now,
we can maybe think of a number of different examples
as to where we can see.

Speaker 27 (01:25:48):
The group outgroup theory be applicable.

Speaker 34 (01:25:50):
Now, stereotypically speaking, nationalism has connotations of hatred towards outgroups,
or sometimes there are connotations that when somebody loves their
country automatically means that they hate immigrants.

Speaker 27 (01:26:02):
For example.

Speaker 34 (01:26:03):
Now, under no circumstances, am I saying that this is
always the case that people who are nationalists or people
who love their country automatically hate people and outgroups or
hate immigrants. Absolutely not am I saying this. I'm not
saying that that is applicable to one hundred percent of people.
In using that really general stereotypical example, we can start
to understand a little bit more about the outgroup bias

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and how people can start to experience hatred and actually
hate on other people. One of the other key characteristics
as to why people hate, psychology has shown is that
they actually fear something within themselves. Clinical psychologists Dana Harron
states that people hate things that they fear about themselves.

Speaker 27 (01:26:43):
We can understand this a little bit better when we
look at Freud and projection.

Speaker 34 (01:26:46):
Projection is basically where we reject the things that we
don't like about ourselves, and we can start to understand
this a little bit better when we think about people
who hate things that other people do. That might be
high achieving people who are successful academically or who start
their own business start a successful business might experience hatred
from other people. Now, people might actually hate on somebody

(01:27:07):
who started their own successful business because it instills that
fear in them that they're afraid of leaving their job
and committing to the sacrifices that it takes to start
and run a successful business. Another really good example of
this are successful sports athletes, for example, especially athletes at
the very height of their game. Often whenever they get
the ball off they're playing fooball, they're playing basketball, or something,

(01:27:28):
will hear booing from the crowd. They're experiencing hatred because
they're at the very top of their game. Now, if
we're again looking at a stereotypical example, that hatred could
be coming from the fact that these fans of these
individuals have a fear in themselves that what it would
take for them to be at that level is a
massive amount of sacrifice and dedication. And that's just a theory,
but it does give us an example or an understanding

(01:27:50):
a little bit about the psychology of hate and actually
where hate comes from. Hate has a lot of its
foundations in fear. Fear of our sells, fear of change,
fear of sacrifice, fear of outgroups. All of that fear
has a lot to do with people extrovertly experiencing and
projecting hatred. Another example, and perhaps an applicable example in

(01:28:11):
today's day and age, is people who hate assilunce seekers. Now,
that hatred might be stemming from the fact that they
fear the vulnerability in their job. They fear that the
individual the asylum seeker come into their country might actually
be better at their job than them, and so they
fear losing their job. That fear projects into that hatred,
that externalization of that hatred. Now, once again, I'm not

(01:28:34):
saying that this is the case with absolutely everybody, But
what I am saying is that we can understand a
little bit about the.

Speaker 27 (01:28:39):
Psychology of hate and where actually hate.

Speaker 34 (01:28:41):
Comes from by understanding a little bit about the foundations
of fear. Another reason as to why people might experience
hate or feel hatred towards others or other groups is
that they're having challenges with their own Identity. Overcoming Destructive
Anger is a book written by Bernard Golden, and Golden
states that hatred or expressing hatred is actually a valuable

(01:29:01):
characteristic in creating our identity within our bone group. For example,
as part of our identity and our membership within our group,
we might have to have hatred for the outgroup. Now,
I live in Glasgow in Scotland, and one of the
key examples of this where part of the identity of
your in group is the fact that you hate the
outgroup is with football. Celtic and Rangers are two rival

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football teams in Glasgow. In part, especially for the extreme fans,
is that part of the identity is not only that
they love Celtic or Rangers, but the fact that they
hate the other team, either Celtic or Rangers. Now, once
again I'm not being generalistic and I'm making sure that
I get this across. This is absolutely not the case
with everybody. There are plenty Celtic fans who get on

(01:29:45):
with Rangers fans and plenty of Rangers fans who get
on with Celtic fans. But there are some extreme examples
where membership of the in group, either Celtic or Rangers
is the fact that.

Speaker 27 (01:29:54):
They hate the outgroup.

Speaker 34 (01:29:56):
And the book written by Golden kind of illustrates this
that the fact that our in group membership is actually
attributed to the hatred that we have for others. Once again,
when we're thinking about the foundation of fear and we're
thinking about this book written by Golden, one of the
things he states is that having hatred for others in
order to establish our identity within our in group stops
us from feeling the vulnerability of having to establish our

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own singular identity.

Speaker 27 (01:30:19):
Once again, we can be.

Speaker 34 (01:30:20):
Fearful of the challenges that come with creating our own
individual identity, and so we stick and connect with the
ingroup identity because that's much stronger, that's already established, and
we know what that is.

Speaker 27 (01:30:31):
And if that means that we're required to hate the outgroup,
then that's what we'll do.

Speaker 34 (01:30:35):
So once again, we can start to understand a little
bit more about the psychology of hate and where hate
comes from.

Speaker 27 (01:30:41):
Based on that foundation of fear.

Speaker 34 (01:30:43):
One of the other factors it's really important that we
understand as to why people hate is to think about
cultural factors in large. I think we actually need to
consider the bigger picture here too, we live in a
society of war and fighting, a society of competition for
the betterment of the self and the betterment of the
selves in group. As a result, cultural factors really do
have a role to play here. I feel we struggle

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to express ourselves as being vulnerable because we fear the
fact that we're going to be taking advantage of by
the enemy, a cultural factor that instilling of attack and
aggression and competitiveness and one on one is massive when
it comes to the psychology of hate and why the
individual in society hates.

Speaker 27 (01:31:25):
Other people or hates outgroups.

Speaker 34 (01:31:27):
So how exactly do we combat against the hatred that
we might be experiencing and feeling. Well, the first hip
here is to express and experience self compassion accept everything
about yourself, both the good and the bad. When there
are things about ourselves that we don't like, we attack
individuals who portray the same characteristics as a defense mechanism
so that we don't have to attack ourselves. So if

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we experience self compassion for the whole self, then we
can start to see people as separate from us. We
can start to express and experience compassion for others, for
characteristics and things that used to cause us hate. True
towards them all comes from that sense of self compassion.
If you can have compassion for the aspects of yourself
that you're both fearful of and that you hate, and

(01:32:09):
as a result project onto other people, you can start
to have compassion for others as well. One of the
things that we need to understand here is that we
learn compassion just like we learn hatred. These are both
learn behaviors, and so in part one of the key
things is we have to have self awareness and we
also have to have education. Hate is primarily driven by fear.
That's one of the things that I really want to

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get across in this video, and some of the most
challenging things that you have to do in order to
overcome that hatred and overcome that fear is to experience
that vulnerability, Face the fear of feeling vulnerable, Face the
fear of your identity or lack of identity, Face the
fear of confronting the things that you like least about yourself,
and show compassion to all of this. Start there and

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begin a process of tolerance and compassion.

Speaker 27 (01:32:53):
Rather than fear and hatred. Yeah, I thank so much
for watching this.

Speaker 34 (01:32:56):
Week's episode of Get Site, we've been looking at the
psychology of hatred, and.

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We've been looking at how the foundation of fear.

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Peace requires the embrace of difference. Let me say that again.

Speaker 41 (01:36:53):
Peace requires the embrace of difference. I know because I've
been at war with myself for as long as I
can remember. One summer, at sixteen years old, I was
inspired to walk the streets of downtown Chicago with a
big white sign that said free Hugs, written with colorful markers.

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I'd stand with my dad or my cousins as people pass.
Sometimes they'd look at me with curiosity and keep walking.
Others would come in skeptical and ask me what's the catch,
And some would say, oh, that's sweet and move on.

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And some people would walk straight up to me, arms
wide open, ready to receive a free hug. One girl
actually ran up and hugged me from behind and She
scared the mess out of me, but we laughed.

Speaker 14 (01:37:54):
About it and hugged again.

Speaker 41 (01:37:56):
One sweet man who seemed to be homeless looked at
me with such surprise when I offered him a hug.
A dad walking his daughter in a stroller stopped and said,
you know what, Yeah, I do need a hug. After
the hug, some would tear up, Others would giggle and

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run back with their friends. Some would look me in
the eye and say thank you. I hugged people of
all ages, races, classes, genders, and.

Speaker 14 (01:38:29):
I met each person where they were, even the.

Speaker 41 (01:38:32):
Ones who would catch my eye and I'd ask, would
you like a hood? And they keep walking without a word,
and maybe even speed up. I knew how to be
with others and embrace their difference, their rejection, their joy,
their desire, their sadness, and I loved it.

Speaker 14 (01:38:55):
I love them. What I didn't know was how to
embrace my own difference.

Speaker 41 (01:39:03):
At nine years old, I had already learned what it
meant to be too loud, to messy, too fat, too emotional,
too tall, too black, too joyful. It meant people might
not like me, that I might get yelled at or
get in trouble, that I lose opportunities to play with

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my friends. So I learned to subdue those parts of
myself as much as possible so that I could feel
safe and feel like I belong. By the time I
was twelve, I'd made a decision to abandon myself in
favor of keeping the peace. I thought that if I

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shut down my emotions, then I'd be able to control
and eliminate the chaos around me at home, at school,
in the world. So at sixteen, my experience was is
that when I felt hurt, i'd immediately shut down. When
I felt angry about something, I would self soothe by eating.

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When I felt anxious or nervous, I'd watch TV to
make it go away. And when conflict would arise in
a group of friends or in my family, I would
choose to play the mediator rather than voicing my own feelings.
These were my strategies for maintaining what I thought was peace,

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But instead I was slowly creating a war within myself
every time I turned away from my pain, creating war.

Speaker 14 (01:40:42):
In pursuit of peace.

Speaker 41 (01:40:44):
It's quite a contradiction, but it's also a norm that
we practice and live into in every level of our
lives intentionally and unintentionally. So I want to start to
redefine what peace really is. I certainly do not have
it all figured out, but that's not the point. I

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can't define a collective experience by myself. What I can
do is bring my individual experience and perspective to the
conversation and invite you to bring.

Speaker 6 (01:41:19):
Your own.

Speaker 3 (01:41:21):
You with me.

Speaker 41 (01:41:22):
Yes, amazing, All right. So peace is a really elusive
concept in our world today. Merriam Webster defines it as
a state of tranquility or quiet. The Cambridge Dictionary defines
it as freedom from war or violence. I don't think

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either of these are wrong, but I don't think they
quite capture it. I think peace is something in between
or all encompassing, where all of it and all of
you is welcome and used in a generative way. I
don't think peace is a destination we can get to,
or a goal we can complete and say we've made it.

(01:42:07):
I see peace as a practice, one that shifts and
changes as we shift and change individually and collectively. Peace
requires the embraceive difference. What I mean by that is
when there is peace without an embrasive difference. If we
look closely, what we'll actually see is compliance, conformity, suppression, tolerance, avoidance.

Speaker 14 (01:42:39):
I don't know about you. That does not sound like
peace to me.

Speaker 41 (01:42:44):
This is important because we are an all time critical
moment when it comes to our cultural, socio political responses
to difference. From humanity's survival on this planet to the
precious life of a child growing up in the crosshairs
of two regions in conflict, everything is at stake. And

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while some of the most pressing issues we humans are
facing are far too big and vast for me alone
to immediately change, I have influence, and so do you.
At the root of that influence is my relationship with
myself and your relationship with yourself. This overflows into everything

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we do and create, including the systems and cultures we
participate in. So you and I right here is where
collective change begins. I want you to consider what parts
of yourself are you afraid to share with the world
around you, so afraid that you might enact violence upon

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yourself through diminishing, neglecting, abandoning judging that.

Speaker 14 (01:43:58):
Part of you?

Speaker 41 (01:44:03):
What would be possible if you turned toward that part
of yourself, arms wide open. I've come up against all
of those parts of me as I've gone through the
process of getting to this moment on the stage, and
let me tell you, I know it is not all
fun and games. I understand that embracing these parts of

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ourselves is hard to do. I have, I have judged
myself up and down as I've prepared to share this message.
And if I let myself stop there, if I turned
away so that I might find some faux sense of
peace and comfort, I would be withholding something from myself

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and from the world that I know I'm here to share,
and the cost of that is too high for me
to accept. What I know now after years of consistently
turning toward my pain, my discomfort, my judgment, is that

(01:45:11):
when I face myself and gaze upon the part of
me that I hate, that I'm afraid of, that I
don't want to see, and I give that part of
me loving attention, I am creating new and different worlds
for myself.

Speaker 14 (01:45:32):
And for generations to come. The worlds that I'm creating.

Speaker 41 (01:45:42):
A world where I can hold the differences between you
and me without needing either one of us to change
or go away, where I value my emotions as a
gift rather than a source of chaos or harm is
met with the support necessary for both the harmed and

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the harmdoer.

Speaker 14 (01:46:07):
Where love is.

Speaker 41 (01:46:08):
More than a good feeling, it's a revolutionary act, and
hope does not come at the expense of reality. Instead,
I look toward what's possible with truth at my feet
and grief in my bones.

Speaker 14 (01:46:26):
These are the seeds of peace that I sew.

Speaker 41 (01:46:31):
Imagine if each of us in this room we're watching
this video planted and nurtured our own seeds within ourselves,
our homes, our communities, our classrooms, our boardrooms, our prayer rooms,
and our war rooms. How would our lives change? How
would our world change? There's no other way that I

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want to end this but to make an invitation. I
think that's because this is a two way conversation that's
only gone one way so far. So thank you for listening.
I love you, and I open the floor to you.
Will you join the conversation with me?

Speaker 8 (01:47:13):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:47:15):
Will you join the conversation with me? Ultimately? That's the question.
It's again.

Speaker 4 (01:47:25):
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I am not
the only one. And I invite all of you to
look within yourselves, to embrace within yourselves. The parts that
are dirty, the parts that are pretty, the parts that
need to be shined up, the parts that are hidden,

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the parts that are blatantly obvious, every aspect of your being.
This is normally the time of the evening where I
would thank all those people that support this program being on,
and you guys, the listener, and of course I am
grateful to you guys, and tonight I want to be

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very specific. I want to thank Republicans and Democrats, those
people that love the show, those people that hate this show,
those people that love me, those people that hate me,
those parts of myself that I have struggles because I'm
not sure whether I hate and I probably do, or
whether I love and I may. I want to thank

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all of it, all of you, all of us, all
of me, and I want to end with two specific
songs tonight.

Speaker 6 (01:48:44):
One is Imagine for obvious reasons, and the.

Speaker 4 (01:48:49):
Other one is a song that's sung by It's a
Beatles song sung by Eric Gaiales and Beth Hart, and
it's a great version of with a little help from
my friends, because ain't nobody doing this by ourselves, So

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let's do it together. Let's work on ourselves so we
could share what we've grown into with ourselves and with
others you've been listening to in our journey with Greg Friedman,
good night.

Speaker 8 (01:50:03):
WHA will you do if I sing out of tom
we should stand up and walk out on me. Leave
me your ear and I'll sing you a song. I
will try not just sing out her keys.

Speaker 7 (01:50:23):
You better not.

Speaker 8 (01:50:26):
My friend let meed somebody.

Speaker 16 (01:50:31):
My friend said, don't get on mine.

Speaker 18 (01:50:35):
When my friend with a little hell, what do I
do when my love is a wave?

Speaker 8 (01:50:52):
Does the world be alone?

Speaker 11 (01:50:56):
No? No?

Speaker 16 (01:50:58):
Pound?

Speaker 18 (01:50:59):
Do I feed you at the end of the days?

Speaker 8 (01:51:03):
Are you saying because you're on your own?

Speaker 18 (01:51:06):
I said you, I don't get sign no more.

Speaker 37 (01:51:09):
A little help.

Speaker 39 (01:51:10):
From my friend, I'm gonna get fine, will get the
way the leader, help from my friend to.

Speaker 8 (01:51:18):
Know people trying John. With a little help from my friend,
I don't get said no more.

Speaker 7 (01:51:25):
Movie do you need in Abne?

Speaker 8 (01:51:38):
I need some wonder Lord.

Speaker 16 (01:51:43):
I'm could be in a vine who knows the smell Dolly, somebody.

Speaker 7 (01:51:54):
Who knows just a little sorry. When a little help
from my.

Speaker 42 (01:52:03):
Read said, I'm gonna get on bad about no sound,
I'm gonna turn When a little help frombout fresh.

Speaker 8 (01:52:14):
Shine, When a little hair from my friend, would.

Speaker 18 (01:52:25):
You be lee even love at first sight?

Speaker 8 (01:52:29):
I'm certain it happens all the time.

Speaker 18 (01:52:34):
What do you see when you can turn off the lights,
I can tell you bout it shut.

Speaker 8 (01:52:42):
It's sacking line.

Speaker 7 (01:52:45):
When a little help about a.

Speaker 8 (01:52:47):
Friend said, I'm gonna get on.

Speaker 7 (01:52:50):
Back, When a little help from friend, I'm gonna.

Speaker 42 (01:52:55):
Get on back, when a little help about shine.

Speaker 7 (01:52:59):
With a little from my prayer. I do you mean by.

Speaker 8 (01:53:19):
Included be in that?

Speaker 16 (01:53:24):
Oh, somebody, somebody who's gonna last minute, somebody who's gonna
show in the world.

Speaker 3 (01:53:40):
I'm gonna get by.

Speaker 10 (01:53:41):
I'm gonna get back by.

Speaker 7 (01:53:48):
Well, I'm gone, child, Lord.

Speaker 9 (01:53:50):
I'm gonna keep trying your girls.

Speaker 19 (01:53:53):
You read, I'm gonna keep.

Speaker 8 (01:53:54):
On tryings together a week.

Speaker 16 (01:53:59):
Somewhere way.

Speaker 43 (01:54:02):
Again as

Speaker 23 (01:55:06):
A right