Keith JonesMay 11, 2017

Sometimes we resent the intrusion of less than optimal circumstances in our lives, but which always come with the good in life. This week the guys discuss how they deal with adversity and self-sabotage 

Keith’s reference:

Wayne Dyer, see www.waynedyer.com. Dyer told readers to pursue self-actualization calling reliance on the self a guide to “religious” experience. Dyer criticized societal focus on guilt, which he saw as an unhealthy immobilization in the present due to actions taken in the past. He encouraged readers to see how parents, institutions, and even they, themselves, had imposed guilt trips upon themselves.  Although Dyer initially resisted the spiritual tag, by the 1990s he had altered his message to include more components of spirituality when he wrote the book Real Magic and discussed higher consciousness in the book Your Sacred Self. He passed away at age 75.

Debbie Ford, a former drug addict whose popular self-help books, including the best-selling Dark Side of the Light Chasers, and Shadow Effect, encouraged people to acknowledge their faults rather than pursue perfection. She passed away at age 57.

Tim Ferriss Timothy “Tim” Ferriss (born July 20, 1977) is an American author, entrepreneur and public speaker. He has written 4 self-help books on the “4-hour” theme, The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, and Tools of Titans; the first two were No. 1 New York Times bestsellers and the third was a No. 1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Rick’s references:

Tara Brach, see www.tarabrach.com American psychologist and proponent of Buddhist meditation. She is a guiding teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. (IMCW). Dr. Brach teaches their Wednesday night meeting in Bethesda, Maryland. Her colleagues include Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein and others in the Vipassana or Insight meditation tradition. Brach also teaches about Buddhist meditation at centers for meditation and yoga in the United States and Europe including Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, the Kripalu Center,  and the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies.

Meditations lead by Tara Brach, see www.tarabrach.com

Zen Reflections, Robert Allen. A book of nuggets of Zen wisdom, to help us free ourselves from the mental, emotional and social attachments that stand in the way of true happiness.

Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 –1971) was an American theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years. Niebuhr was one of America’s leading public intellectuals for several decades of the 20th century and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. A public theologian, he wrote and spoke frequently about the intersection of religion, politics, and public policy, with his most influential books including Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man, the second of which Modern Library ranked one of the top 20 nonfiction books of the twentieth century.