The Khalil Gibran Podcast - Benjamin McEvoy

Today’s show is about the life lessons you can take away from Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet.

We’re talking about all the big key pieces that comprise the human condition: work, love, crime and punishment, justice, freedom, friendship, passion, pain, self-knowledge, beauty, death, and so much more.

Get the book:

The Prophet

Read the book review:

The Prophet Book Review

Listen to the show:

Hardcore Literature: The Prophet

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Topics Covered in the Podcast (with Timestamps)

Feel free to jump to any particular theme that interests you:

00:00 – Why I didn’t want to do this podcast
04:15 – The good, bad, and the bullshit about Tony Robbins
07:09 – How to read the Bible
08:04 – The line separating good and evil passes through every human heart (Solzhenitsyn)
09:50 – What would you have done in Nazi Germany?
11:15 – The purpose of friendship
14:20 – One of my favourite ways to think about pain
16:33 – How to get over heartbreak
17:55 – Much of your pain is self-chosen
20:05 – Ask yourself these 2 questions
21:44 – How to be free (gurus and fighters, affirmations and visualisation)
24:50 – The murdered is not unaccountable for his own murder
27:03 – Humanity is fucked up – could you be a serial killer or slave owner?
29:05 – How to be a more empathetic and understanding person
30:15 – Are you too comfortable?
32:20 – A rant about the lonely Tinder generation and online dating
34:08 – Seek discomfort and diversity
35:28 – Brexit, Remain vs. Leave, Trump, Bernie, and Clinton
37:05 – List all the things you want but don’t have
39:00 – Your joy is sorrow unmasked (sadness is a gift)
40:00 – Love and grief is an obligation to improve
40:51 – Everything is two sides to the same coin
42:15 – Work is love made visible
47:32 – How to think about saying goodbye to those you love
49:03 – How to think more abundantly

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