Welcome to the first episode of "On Meaning with Philip Lindholm" in which you are invited to go deeper - emotionally, spiritually, vocationally - on your way to a richer and more meaningful life.  Thank you for joining the conversation.

Listen to Philip's TEDx talk "The Secret to a Meaningful Life":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bGdzDkmCBs

David Whyte poem read at the end of the show:

"Start close in, 
don’t take the second step 
or the third, 
start with the first 
thing 
close in, 
the step 
you don’t want to take. 

Start with 
the ground 
you know, 
the pale ground 
beneath your feet, 
your own 
way to begin 
the conversation. 

Start with your own 
question, 
give up on other 
people’s questions, 
don’t let them 
smother something 
simple. 

To hear 
another’s voice, 
follow 
your own voice, 
wait until 
that voice 

becomes an 
intimate 
private ear 
that can 
really listen 
to another. 

Start right now 
take a small step 
you can call your own 
don’t follow 
someone else’s 
heroics, be humble 
and focused, 
start close in, 
don’t mistake 
that other 
for your own. 

Start close in, 
don’t take 
the second step 
or the third, 
start with the first 
thing 
close in, 
the step 
you don’t want to take." 

Links from the Show

• Philip Lindholm
• David Whyte