Terry Patten is an international speaker and consultant as a community organizer, philosopher, and teacher. He has founded multiple non-profits and social movements for causes that serve the greater good. In this episode, Terry and Eric discuss his new book which deals with the intersection of being all you can be (self-growth) and helping others (social activism). He argues that you can’t fulfill either without addressing both (and we tend to agree!). If you’d like to know more about different forms of activism, how you can be both focused on your inner-world AND the outer-world, and thinking in terms of both AND rather than either OR, then this episode is for you.
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In This Interview, Terry Patten and I Discuss…
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How the bad wolf is often a shapeshifter
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Interrogating the good wolf to confirm identity!
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Inner work and outer work
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Self-focus preventing activism
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Our moral obligation to engage in activism
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Different forms of activism
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In the system, against the system and around the system types of activism
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Being all you can be and helping others – can’t fulfill either without addressing both
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As a species, we’re both getting better and perched on a cliff of perilous danger
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Your attention is like a flashlight beam and awareness is like sunlight flooding a room
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Thinking in both and terms rather than either or terms
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Can we get to 10% of the world’s population being at a higher level of awakening?
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Going from a seeker to a practitioner
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A seeker is grounded in lack, residing from a sense of what’s missing
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A presence in wholeness, relaxing into our wholeness
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Recognition relieving one of the momentum of lack
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A surrender and trust of being that is the soul of sanity
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Neurons that fire together, wire together reinforces the importance of practice
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We’re always practicing something – what are you practicing right now?
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We can always begin again now
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Relational Practices
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Expressing our inner-work through our outer-work
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