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The Boundaries of Self: A Conversation with David Whyte (Episode

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  • Опубликовано: 7 мар 2021
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    In this episode of the podcast, Sam speaks with poet David Whyte about his new and on-going series for the Waking Up app, based on his book, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words.
    Released: March 7, 2021
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Комментарии • 135

  • @DiarrheaBubbles
    @DiarrheaBubbles 3 года назад +127

    I bought a new sound system just to experience the intro to this podcast correctly

    • @richardavery2894
      @richardavery2894 3 года назад +8

      I just bought a new experience just to intro my sound system correctly...

    • @verfassungspatriot
      @verfassungspatriot 3 года назад

      @@richardavery2894 where can I buy this? :D

    • @marty9660
      @marty9660 3 года назад

      Show is great. intro is too doomsday.
      ruclips.net/video/GGALam5tNr0/видео.html

    • @yvesmichaeledwards
      @yvesmichaeledwards 3 года назад +5

      I used to have the intro as my ringtone

    • @sirriffsalot4158
      @sirriffsalot4158 3 года назад +2

      @@verfassungspatriot It comes with the waking up app ;-D

  • @tdez6060
    @tdez6060 3 года назад +56

    "The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another..." How lovely.

    • @rozakkkazora8527
      @rozakkkazora8527 3 года назад

      now someone just needs to take this quote and place it over a shiny chrome mouth

    • @shortcutDJ
      @shortcutDJ 3 года назад +1

      that almost made me cry

    • @akeustis
      @akeustis 3 года назад +1

      This is the My Little Poetry: Friendship Is Magic episode.

    • @tdez6060
      @tdez6060 3 года назад

      ​@@akeustis awh i like that

    • @Skiddla
      @Skiddla Год назад

      @@rozakkkazora8527 puu.sh/JsN87/4d2f037138.png

  • @luker.6967
    @luker.6967 3 года назад +35

    That friendship poem was really something else. Thank you David!

  • @knowholovesrainydays9770
    @knowholovesrainydays9770 3 года назад +16

    This man deserves all the respect

  • @elizabethk3238
    @elizabethk3238 2 года назад +1

    This is an example of why I'm so into Sam Harris... Thank you from a 75 year-old retired Canadian social worker.

  • @ntroudart
    @ntroudart 3 года назад +3

    I listened to this episode over 10 times for the past week or so... Sam Harris and David Whyte are the best together... Inspired me and reached deep in my brain...

  • @kashesan
    @kashesan 3 года назад +6

    So beautiful-the ultimate touchstone of friendship is Witness. Thank you.

  • @violinsinthevoid4579
    @violinsinthevoid4579 3 года назад +9

    Consolations is an excellently written book. He lives up here in Whidbey Island in Washington State. He was my dance teachers neighbor. He is extremely kind and thoughtful. I’d love to have a chance to take a walk with him in a foggy morning in the British Isles. What a guy!

  • @Mr96akaal
    @Mr96akaal 3 года назад +8

    A grounded conversation is priceless. ‼️👏🏼 Thanks for the video Sam.

  • @aaronwhite1479
    @aaronwhite1479 3 года назад +11

    Brilliant, especially the section on friendships.

  • @adventureswithjonny87
    @adventureswithjonny87 3 года назад +21

    I'm hearing this and I'm on your subscriber feed!

  • @ncooty
    @ncooty 3 года назад +12

    Great conversation and insights... and Mr. Whyte seems to agree with himself quite often... "yeah."

  • @Kavriel
    @Kavriel 3 года назад +6

    If i say, "I have no regret" i don't mean i didn't do something that i wish i hadn't, i mean i don't feel guilty for the things i shouldn't have done, because i've grown past it, i've forgiven myself.
    You make mistakes, you learn your lessons, you get a bit wiser. Holding on to regrets is not unlike wallowing in it, doesn't sound healthy to me. The past is something we should stand on, not stay in.
    Beautiful things said about Friendship. It can be said about family actually. The reason we don't usually ditch out family members is because we often don't have that opportunity. So we come to forgive or let bygones be bygones, until it becomes a habbit. A lot of people feel that friends is the family that you chose, lots of truth to that.
    I find the navigation between : helping friends improve and accepting them as they are, difficult to navigate. One can make the friend inconfortable or even angry, and the other might let them continue self-destructive patterns.
    I actually hate the sentence : "Never explain. Your ennemies won't believe you, and you friends don't need it." The most insightful things need some breaking down. Knowing the reasoning behind a sentence is often more important and revealing than knowing the sentence. It's not what you know but how you know it that makes sense. If you can bring someone from the basis of the argument to its logical conclusion, a rational mind should agree, or if they don't on the moment, they should come to change their opinion after a while of digestion.
    Your friends should require proper explanation and not base their knowledge on hearsay.
    I also don't like the separation of people between ennemies and friends. It's very binary and simplistic.
    All in all, quite a nice talk, some good insightful points, that are likely to have an effect on my handling my friendships.

  • @stavokg
    @stavokg 3 года назад +1

    Sam Harris, wow; THANK YOU for bringing your podcast, and this wonderfully illuminating episode to us.

  • @jamescooke6173
    @jamescooke6173 3 года назад +9

    This podcast was like the Godzilla vs. King Kong of soothing voices

  • @MiaogisTeas
    @MiaogisTeas 3 года назад +8

    4:49 This sums up my frustrations with modern education and language so well.

    • @tomgmaples
      @tomgmaples 3 года назад

      I think that's the difference in the way males and females visualize and learn. The modern school system geared to Taylor easier for a female period boys do better with older boys mentoring them.

  • @DavidRamos-nz4bh
    @DavidRamos-nz4bh 3 года назад +4

    This was absolutely moving.. thank you..

  • @helenyates3951
    @helenyates3951 3 года назад +2

    I have many regrets..as David eloquently suggests, we can reflect and appreciate how we can be different in our lives to the experiences of regrets. Regrets can motivate us to grow and develop and deepen our lives into better human beings. It's an ongoing morphing into.

    • @solarnaut
      @solarnaut 2 года назад

      Helen yates, Yes, thanks for saying so ! It certainly sounds more prudent to take yesterday's manure and with it fertilize today's garden, rather than (the sometimes easier seeming choice of) just rolling in it ! B-)

  • @saintdouche
    @saintdouche 3 года назад +2

    Great conversation, thanks both

  • @eeoo2062
    @eeoo2062 3 года назад +1

    I appreciate all you do. Thanks

  • @positiveposts1249
    @positiveposts1249 3 года назад +1

    Yes your friends know why you are who you are. They understand the things you cannot change even for your higher good-until one is ready and then- far out man so cool

  • @darren_mcgarvey
    @darren_mcgarvey 3 года назад +2

    Beautiful discussion.

  • @vaani2306
    @vaani2306 3 года назад +1

    Superb conversation!

  • @MrEtown87
    @MrEtown87 3 года назад +2

    That hit me, too caught up in work. Friendships dwindling. I need to rectify this.
    Covid does not help but neither does using it as an excuse... I'm waffling now. Great conversation Sam & David

    • @solarnaut
      @solarnaut 2 года назад

      MrEtown87, thanks for posting . . . "no judgment" (even if "9 months" later, a new baby could have been born ;-) ) . . . I winced a bit hearing Sam refer to the "hopefully waning" pandemic . . . it is the "excuse the keeps on giving" for ever shrinking social circles even if age and a drifting from institutionalized systems that tend to foist upon us friendship opportunities may be as much a factor . . . "to blame" Cheers for 2022 ! B-)

  • @naturalisted1714
    @naturalisted1714 3 года назад

    Learning about others shows you who you are.

  • @chrisschmid5212
    @chrisschmid5212 3 года назад +5

    the black hole of introspection

  • @anotheryoutube3179
    @anotheryoutube3179 3 года назад +13

    11:00 that is beautiful indeed

  • @bradbradspringate7609
    @bradbradspringate7609 3 года назад

    The part on friendship was amazing he app is great too

  • @shaun906
    @shaun906 3 года назад +2

    thanks Sam, been under the weather so I needed a calm relaxing podcast. when's ricky calling you again?

  • @stephenbyrneireland
    @stephenbyrneireland 3 года назад +7

    Fantastic. Just gorgeous.

  • @eltorroyirlande
    @eltorroyirlande 3 года назад +1

    That was absolutely beautiful...

  • @S.G.Wallner
    @S.G.Wallner 3 года назад +3

    This should be great!

  • @chewyjello1
    @chewyjello1 3 года назад +1

    11 mins in and this has brought tears to my eyes. What a hopeful way to allow all those things from the past to come rushing back...

  • @BlandMarkComedy
    @BlandMarkComedy 3 года назад +4

    Mighty!

  • @randygault4564
    @randygault4564 3 года назад +1

    Thank you.

  • @JD..........
    @JD.......... 3 года назад

    If only the critics of Sam could hear episodes like this...

  • @daveshonk7702
    @daveshonk7702 3 года назад +2

    I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying...wow.

  • @goblingimp195
    @goblingimp195 3 года назад +8

    Sam good podcast, keep it up!

  • @swaggitypigfig8413
    @swaggitypigfig8413 3 года назад +4

    Thanks for bringing on Mr Hwhyte Sam

  • @MosesPlays
    @MosesPlays 3 года назад +6

    Actual content,finally NOT another call from Ricky.
    Had my fill of those..

    • @MattCooperKay
      @MattCooperKay 3 года назад +3

      Why were Ricky's discussions any less valid 'content'? It's of course personal preference, but I enjoyed them.

    • @MosesPlays
      @MosesPlays 3 года назад

      I don't know m8,I simply don't think he's that interesting.. take the first call from Ricky for example,just looking at the title,I knew Ricky is going to speak about his comedic process.. and though it started out quite interesting,it almost immediately turned into just that..
      I also am not a fan of how he conducts himself in a discussion,and how he sometimes cuts out Sam without letting him finish a thought(or even a question).
      But if I'm being perfectly honest with you Matt, All I really want to do is listening to Sam,and I'm often thinking to myself,why won't sam stop interviewing people,and just read the books,and instead of inviting them for a discussion,simply tell us what the books are about.
      That would make me the happiest.
      #ManCrushAlert xD

  • @Protolamna
    @Protolamna 3 года назад

    He sounds like the dude sampled in the song Dead eyes Open from Severed Heads back in '83.

  • @dr.paulj.watson4582
    @dr.paulj.watson4582 3 года назад +1

    Splendid.

  • @1979ce
    @1979ce 3 года назад +3

    Honesty is reached through strength and confidence. Weak people lie.

  • @merkisruiz3120
    @merkisruiz3120 3 года назад

    Looks like embodied cognition is gaining traction! Good.

  • @karinamendoza7787
    @karinamendoza7787 3 года назад

    “… The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement neither of the self nor of the other.
    The ultimate touchstone of friendship is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another.
    To have walked with them and to have believed in them and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span on a journey impossible to accomplish alone. …”

  • @brianjoyce9040
    @brianjoyce9040 3 года назад +1

    Thx man

  • @DAlexKablack
    @DAlexKablack 3 года назад +3

    did this just get uploaded and i randomly came upon it?

    • @ra6298
      @ra6298 3 года назад +1

      Algorithm ....

  • @hokiturmix
    @hokiturmix 3 года назад +1

    David reminds me of the narrator from Jeff Wayne's War of the World.

  • @twhite3003
    @twhite3003 3 года назад +2

    Finally.

  • @BTM8109
    @BTM8109 3 года назад +3

    A Whytes-only podcast I can get behind

  • @GaaikeEuwema
    @GaaikeEuwema 3 года назад

    It would be great if you could invite charles hoskinson. I think you have so many shared interests, from effective ways to improve the world to meditation..

  • @1979ce
    @1979ce 3 года назад +2

    Also Never apologize. You're enemies won't believe you and your friends don't need it.

  • @1979ce
    @1979ce 3 года назад +2

    Making woke sense with formerly interesting Sam Harris. You're what I listen to at the end of the day when/if I've exhausted everything else.

    • @mattd2641
      @mattd2641 3 года назад

      Imagine going out of your way to click on this video just so you can post some bitterly-worded comment, to announce to the world that you're upset because you and Sam don't agree on everything.

  • @garyhamilton2104
    @garyhamilton2104 3 года назад

    At 11 minutes in when he talks about using his past regrets as a "pair of eyes and ears" to pay attention to the future, am I understanding him correctly? Using an example; is it like him saying you use the recurring memory of past bad experiences as a trigger to become mindful?

    • @mattd2641
      @mattd2641 3 года назад

      I took it less literal than that: having regrets has made him more aware and better able to avoid creating new ones. It's his way of putting a more positive spin on the fact that he still lives with his regrets.

  • @blakereneehope
    @blakereneehope 3 года назад

    Cool how it hedges on the simple "Friendship" conclusion. Makes for an easy transition with efficient use.
    Mostly we don't see others as friends, so its a deep insight. The western mind lol.
    Honestly on the side of positive Karma, and receive the same. People who are dis-honest find it hard to maintain friendships, even the tiny ones. Manifest through natures intention, with honest foundation.
    LOL "Ambition is a word that lacks ambition" LOLOL

  • @doma3554
    @doma3554 3 года назад

    Hey Sam. Will you speak with Jordan Peterson again soon?

  • @almcdonald8676
    @almcdonald8676 3 года назад

    I was thinking about Sam ’s congratulating jack dorsey for removing trumps Twitter and it suddenly occurred to me that Harris is now indistinguishable from Ezra klein. I would imagine that could be construed a tragedy but I suspect that for the remnant of Sam’s audience such a comparison is desirable.

  • @shoresofpatmos
    @shoresofpatmos 3 года назад +1

    👌👌👌

  • @MonteiroM
    @MonteiroM 3 года назад +1

    Interesting

  • @garrettrobertson3678
    @garrettrobertson3678 3 года назад +1

    Friendship: 13:53

  • @Stephy66
    @Stephy66 3 года назад +3

    Hi

  • @TechGamesAU
    @TechGamesAU 3 года назад

    1:00 start

  • @andybaldman
    @andybaldman 3 года назад

    Friendship is no longer these things. It's just an icon you click on the internet now.

  • @bizleycraft6146
    @bizleycraft6146 3 года назад

    "A fear of loss in one form or another is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties."
    Means nothing. It mirrors a clip from Prager "University" my Christian friends once posted that claimed that all 10 commandments are about stealing. To maintain either claim you have to make the corresponding word meaningless.

  • @kataroquasinzki7383
    @kataroquasinzki7383 3 года назад +6

    Samuel please invite _White Fragility_ 's author. It'll just break the internet

    • @MiaogisTeas
      @MiaogisTeas 3 года назад +5

      It would be a whirlpool of DiAngelo's circular reasoning and doublespeak crashing against the rocks of Harris' insistence that she admit identitarian ideology isn't a valid basis for government policy and making decisions for the whole of society. No disrespect to Sam, but it would be a waste of time. DiAngelo is so caught up in her own subjective reality I doubt she can function normally in society. Robyn is incapable of stepping out from behind the mask she's made for herself and just experiencing life without a racist lens through which to view it - she's no-one of note. She's nothing without it.

  • @dhadad9885
    @dhadad9885 3 года назад

    I guess no more phone calls from Ricky! :-(

  • @skulptor
    @skulptor 3 года назад +2

    Mr Harris left the building some time ago.

  • @lindajoylapointe
    @lindajoylapointe 2 месяца назад

    I am a senior on a pension and cannot afford membership. I understood that you are prepared to grant membership for free is asked. I am asking. Thank you.

  • @munkymunk9053
    @munkymunk9053 3 года назад +1

    I enjoyed the conversation but the readings were awful. The man is in love with the sound of his own voice and comes across as if the words coming out of his mouth are a cure for cancer or something. I can't imagine sitting through an hour or more of him droning on about the obvious benefits of friendships as if they were revelations.
    Did he go through most of his life as a loner and only recently found some good friends? I know that I'm lucky to have some extremely good friends but I feel as if most people already understand these concepts.
    I don't practice meditation so that part of Sam's work is uninteresting to me, I usually wouldn't comment on one of these types of videos but this guy just struck a nerve with me. I guess I just want to express my desire for more science-based content like the ''How to build a universe'' or the theology-driven discussions that have a Hitch-shaped hole these days.

    • @Iambecome
      @Iambecome 3 года назад +2

      "droning on about the obvious benefits of friendships as if they were revelations." - that's all that anyone needs to know about you, sir.

  • @tanistramontin4261
    @tanistramontin4261 3 года назад

    I miss the idw

  • @bradbecker8982
    @bradbecker8982 3 года назад +2

    Please have a chat with #YaronBrookShow before you conclude your talks about the self. Objectivists need included in this discussion otherwise facts will inevitably be neglected.

  • @TheVeganarchism
    @TheVeganarchism 3 года назад +3

    At the risk of sounding like a cretin: could someone who enjoys David Whyte’s poetry or finds it edifying please try to explain to me why they do? Is it purely aesthetic (and thus out of reach for someone like me who just doesn’t “get it”) or is there a way I can learn to appreciate what others seem to? To me it just sounds like fairly obvious prose most of the time - and I don’t mean that as an insult, I’m just trying to explain how it lands (or fails to) to my ear.

    • @DoubleOhSilver
      @DoubleOhSilver 3 года назад

      I haven't read a lot of his poetry yet, so take this with a grain of salt. A lot of poetry can be obvious. Poetry is meant to be eloquent and meant to get you thinking, even if the point is simple. It might help if you try reading into the words more, try to appreciate the flow of there's any, and to pause and re read sections to try to better understand what ideas and emotions they are trying to convey.

    • @DoubleOhSilver
      @DoubleOhSilver 3 года назад

      I should add that I also think prose tends to lack eloquence and it bothers me when it's written in verses that have no flow.

  • @yogeshkulkarni
    @yogeshkulkarni 3 года назад +2

    Jottings:
    - Themes: Word's true meaning
    - Dialog: Sam Harris with David Whyte
    - Ref Book: "Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words."
    - Friendship:
    - Mirror to presence
    - Touchstone: being witness
    - Good friend looks at best in you, encourages you.
    - Honesty:
    - Grounded in humility
    - Not revealing the truth, but being afraid of that, how little we know.
    - Ambition:
    - Frozen desire
    - Essential at young but becomes obstacle when mature
    - Authentic watermark of life: Generosity
    - Alone:
    - Not threat but chance to embark journey of unknown
    - Meeting new you, what you have become.

  • @sandiegene
    @sandiegene 2 года назад

    I think he's off the mark?. Friendship isn't about witness it's about validation.
    Validation of your likes, dislikes, of you.
    Also, I've never had to "forgive" a friend - we're not d*cks to each other

  • @Ignirium
    @Ignirium 3 года назад +1

    Why does Davis Whyte read things twice, why does David Whyte read things twice?

    • @janegreen191
      @janegreen191 Год назад

      To give you time to absorb the words.

    • @Ignirium
      @Ignirium Год назад

      @@janegreen191 Oh, that makes sense. I found it distracting because it was intentional, it also felt like i was really young like a kid who needs to be told things slowly. But it was an educational tactic. I still find it very distracting and dumbed down

  • @jimmyjones8676
    @jimmyjones8676 3 года назад +1

    The fact that David Whytes concept of lying is center around self deception shows his utterly detached from reality.

  • @AwkwardSegway95
    @AwkwardSegway95 3 года назад

    I'll repeat what I said in the comments of the last episode with this guy: "Just when you thought poets couldn't get any more pretentious..."

    • @MikeWalker
      @MikeWalker 3 года назад +1

      Absolutely. Jesus... i thought at one point he was going to quote himself.

  • @1979ce
    @1979ce 3 года назад

    Is this dude telling us about friendship? He sitting a restaurant alone. He can't even find one person in his life to spare a half hour for him. He's alone. Why would I want to listen to an old lonely person. There is nothing more sad.

  • @tristancappel
    @tristancappel 3 года назад +2

    First

  • @Jams1187
    @Jams1187 3 года назад +2

    Second

  • @JohnDoe-xw6mg
    @JohnDoe-xw6mg 3 года назад

    No more brave conversations with interesting people. Sam is a few videos away from Deepak Chopra status, his got the app already

    • @tobycokes1
      @tobycokes1 3 года назад

      Hole

    • @mattd2641
      @mattd2641 3 года назад +1

      Thanks for sharing your opinion. I found this one to be pretty interesting myself.

  • @patrickoneal5533
    @patrickoneal5533 3 года назад

    Shame the ultimate enemy

  • @AnythingMachine
    @AnythingMachine 3 года назад

    Death is bad

  • @Greef246
    @Greef246 3 года назад

    Say no to marxism

  • @mariog1490
    @mariog1490 3 года назад +3

    Have Jordan on. Just talk about something else.

    • @thesk8erdav
      @thesk8erdav 3 года назад

      Never thought I’d see Travis Scott’s pic in a Sam Harris comment section

  • @rofl0rblades
    @rofl0rblades 3 года назад

    This kind of poetry ist somehow not my cup of tea.

  • @bradleymeacham2348
    @bradleymeacham2348 3 года назад

    Hi! I enjoyed the content! I've been trying to research for an insightful RUclips video like yours that really breaks down the stuff in this RUclips video. 👏 The part at 1:31 is my favorite. Your content actually reminds me of the channel of Doctor Ethan. Ethan's explanations are really informative and I actually learned a lot for my practice. He is the helpful medical student on RUclips and he talks about mental health.
    Go see his RUclips out and give the med student a like here! ➡️ #DrEthanOnRUclips

  • @saffet5292
    @saffet5292 3 года назад

    I am 74, I have not heard 2 hours of such a silly meaningless stupid conversation in my life. except during 60s.sometimes after after we got really stoned.
    1

  • @1979ce
    @1979ce 3 года назад

    restaurant by yourself....the ultimate sign you've failed in life.

    • @munkymunk9053
      @munkymunk9053 3 года назад +5

      What an ignorant comment

    • @MikeWalker
      @MikeWalker 3 года назад

      The ultimate sign? Really? I see you by the sea, in a restaurant... the sea crashing on the waves... amid interesting, lived in faces, and your head buried into your mobile phone.

  • @Sagaciousish
    @Sagaciousish 3 года назад

    Old Sam the corporate mouthpiece Harris strikes again