Chats with Larry Episode 10

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On today’s RABBI BRIAN’S CHATS WITH LARRY

Audio quality is not great this episode, Larry is on speaker and hard to hear at times.

  1. Ballast – A sense of centeredness, how to get more ballast in our lives
  2. Writing G-D removes the limits
  3. The self-surpassing surpasser of all (Hawthorn’s Theorem)
  4. Hebrews 11 “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen”
  5. Accumulating the wisdom of the past
  6. The word AVER and understanding words and their fullness
  7. Brian tries to get Larry to curse
  8. Not dumming down our language/vocabulary
  9. Two different teaching styles

Five More Wisdom Biscuits

  1. I know garbage “You should put the garbage bins back where they were before you remodelled,” I tell the managers of the Grant High School construction project when they host a neighborhood forum. “Funny thing, that,” the lady in charge says, “It’s a bit counterintuitive.” She explains something city planners learned about beaches. “If there is a garbage

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Light-Lifting

✧✧✧ Introduction ✧✧✧   A long-form follow up to May’s 14/40 Five Wisdom Biscuits about smiling.   ✧✧✧ Outline ✧✧✧ A Story Deep Shit About Smiles The Joke My New Workout Plan ✧✧✧ A Story ✧✧✧   I exercise religiously—by which I mean I’m very compassionate and affirming. Today, I didn’t challenge myself to attempt an eight-rep back squat 5–8

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A Big Ask

Beloved, What I’m about to ask is a very big ask. You (probably) aren’t going to want to do it. But I’m still going to ask. Because it’s important. Very important. Stop hating.   ✧✧✧   “No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to

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