John R. Miles

And when you lose that central feeling of mattering, you are just filled with a profound emptiness and a lack of any direction that's giving you meaning.

And I love your work on using the word love here.

I happen to have Joshua Green, who's at Harvard.

psychologist and Dr. Rick Hansen, who you might be aware of yesterday on the show.

And we were talking about how to expand the circle of moral concern.

And Rick in this chapter of his life has created this foundation called the Global Coalition Circle.

And with this, he is trying to spread love through acts of compassion, and he's trying to get people to start compassion circles.

because we've lost this whole presence and connection in the communities that existed for millennia.

So I'm completely in line with what you are saying and what you teach.

Before we continue, I want to pause on something important.

Listening to Mark talk about swimming in the stream of life is one thing.

Living it, especially when you're navigating the turbulence of the surface, is quite another thing.

So many of you write to me saying, I want to be present, but I'm exhausted.

I'm overwhelmed by the noise and I don't know how to find the current.

That tension between the pressure to perform and the desire to be present is exactly what the season of meaning is all about.

That's why each episode in this series is paired with reflection tools inside the Ignited Life.

We help you build the architecture to find your own current, asking questions like, am I acting as a glass, bitter and small, or a lake, expansive and fresh in this moment?

What

Parts of my outer life need to flake off so my inner light can shine brighter.

Inside The Ignited Life, you'll find weekly reflection prompts that are tied to insights from our episodes and tools to help you move from the turbulence of the surface into the depth of being.