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Shambhala New York offers a special soul podcast called ‘Meditation in the City’. I listen to it on my iPhone using the Overcast app.

There’s a particular episode that I wanted to share. The episode’s description is: “We all experience fear. How does the gentleness cultivated in meditation practice help us work with this experience? Is true fearlessness possible?”

This was great stuff – calming brain food. Click here to head to the web page for this podcast episode.

The speaker is someone named Natalie Baker. I like her voice – it doesn’t put me to sleep and it doesn’t make my spine want to shatter.

I went onto the web and found a page for the podcast. This particular episode is about an hour long. Sixty soul minutes.

And this is about Natalie Baker:

Natalie Baker, founder of Buddhist Psychotherapy NY & Neurofeedback NY, is a licensed psychotherapist and certified neurofeedback trainer in New York. She has been a student and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism and Shambhala Buddhism since the 90s.

Maybe resignation ain’t so bad. Consider this.

What happens is that we realize that we are but a speck of dust, a plaything of events outside our reach.

Nevertheless, we may at the same time discover that we have a certain liberty, as long as we live.

There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

Hence, our dependence upon events is not absolute; it is qualified by our spiritual freedom.

Therefore, when we speak of resignation it is not sadness to which we refer, but the triumph of our will-to-live over whatever happens to us.

And to become ourselves, to be spiritually alive, we must have passed beyond this point of resignation.

Albert Schweitzer