Rob Bell
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Rob Bell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Really?
Wow. Wow.
Yes.
That everything you are working and striving for, you already have. That so often we're working, sweating, clinging, grasping, striving to feel worthy enough. And the fundamental good news, what's called the gospel, is the announcement that you're loved exactly as you are. You don't have to do anything. You're already a daughter of the divine. You're already a son of the divine.
You're already in. There's this great line in the story of the prodigal son where the father says, you are always with me and everything I have is yours. It's interesting when you talk about, well, what do you think about God? I think in images, I think in lines, I think in pictures, and I think in like dialogue, like you are always with me and everything I have is yours.
So all of the stuff that we do to feel like we measure up, that we're worth, it's all been taken care of. You're fine. Now, in response to that, let's make some stuff. Let's do something. Let's go do something. But then we're coming from a different place. And we're not doing this to prove something. We're not doing this to earn something.
We're not doing this to somehow scratch some itch or stroke some part of the heart that desperately has been beaten down and doesn't know anything. You're okay. In all of your not togetherness, you're all fine. All the ways you've made a mess of it. It's okay. It's okay. All the ways we've screwed it up. Yeah. It's okay.
Yeah, although I say that in light of how people really suffer. Right, of course.
You've got food. So I've seen too much of the world. You're in Hollywood.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I'll tell you. The inner dialogue that says... Push, push, push. It's not enough. You're still learning. You're still... You do an interview and later I'm like, what did I answer it that way for? And that voice that always wants to be like, see? See? You don't have it. You don't have it. You don't have what it takes. You seriously want to play this game? Come on. Who are we kidding?
Instead of, I'm here. How much fun is this? This is a gift. You get to receive it. There is a wonder and awe to existence. And the struggle for me is when you lose that and you feel entitled, you feel like, yeah, yeah, that's nice. But you know, the real world, no, the real world is a place where you can have wonder and awe. Yeah. That's, that's like, that's every day.
That's so sitting in silence and The practices that sort of take me back to center. We're here. We're breathing. It's another day. Let's try some things.
Yeah, I probably started... six years ago surfing a ton because and at first it was like oh this you know if you have some time what a nice hobby what a lovely sport and i know that the surfers who listen to you will know what i'm talking about and then it turns into something something similar to oxygen where it's it's like practice
And I was actually doing this event with a legendary Buddhist teacher. And I was talking about surfing. And then I was like, but I probably shouldn't say anymore because I'll just start gushing. It doesn't sound right. And he's like, oh, you mean moving meditation? I was like, you have a word for this? He's like, yeah, yeah, that's a moving meditation. What you're describing is a meditation.
But if I try to sit still on a couch or a cushion, it's not going to go well.
But I move.
and like not yesterday morning morning before last this pod of dolphins is in the water in the lineup and they're coming in among us and they're jumping all the way out of the water like this and they're coming like me to you so you almost like curl your toes in a touch just because they're like playing and the dolphin isn't like I'm a dolphin it's just being a dolphin and it just every time it does something to you there's something that happens yeah where was this
Santa Monica or what? Yeah, North Venice, South Santa Monica, right in that stretch.
Oh, yeah. The other day at Topanga, there was a nice big whale went through.
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