Stillness in the Storms
This is a podcast for anyone going through something hard. No quick fixes. No everything happens for a reason. No advice from a man who has never had a bad week. I am Steven Webb. In 1991, aged 18, I dived into a swimming pool in Truro and broke my neck. I have been paralysed from the chest down ever since. That is not the hard part of the story. It took another twenty two years, a bankruptcy, a spell homeless and a dark night at forty before I found anything that actually helped. What helped was Zen. Not the serene kind...
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- StandardSummaries onlyBeyond Happiness: The Importance of Nourishment for a Meaningful Life
Published Aug 3, 2024
Beyond HappinessWhat is the difference between something that makes you happy and something that nourishes you? Fireworks are wonderful. They do not feed you for the week.Even a sip of water is more entertaining than meditation. But meditation gives you wisdom and calm and the ability to see things as they actually are, which the firework does not. Your favourite track is gone twenty minutes later. Enjoy it, but do not ask it to carry the day. I have been taking more time alone lately, by choice, and it is doin