Reboot Podcast Episode #178 – Discovering What Matters in a Distracted World – with Soren Gordhamer

Memorable Quotes

“I think we all come here with our own kind of karmic path or karmic assignment. And it’s easy as we kind of make our way to kind of get lost in all the things of the world and to forget, “what actually matters to me? What is actually essential?” In any given day, with the limited heartbeats I have on this planet, how do I live them in a way that feels true to my own calling and true to my own kind of reason for being here, so to speak?” – Soren Gordhamer

“How do we actually remember what are the real important elements in our life and how do we prioritize those within this world where everyone’s trying to get our attention and it’s so easy to kind of fall prey to spending our limited heartbeats that we have on the planet in ways that really don’t serve us.” – Soren Gordhamer

“I’ve always liked the phrase, “enlightenment is an accident and our job is to become accident prone.” So it’s not to force it, but we create conditions that bring out that true presence and that true joy in us. And then how do we listen to that to create the life from that space versus creating a life that actually says nothing about who we are and what our values are.” – Soren Gordhamer

“I’m going to extract a little bit of a path that I’ve taken from your book, which is to discover what really matters in this age of distraction one needs to re-member the parts of ourselves, the parts of our humanity, the parts of our connectedness to one another that isn’t necessarily facilitated by the algorithm, but is facilitated by our shared humanity.” – Jerry Colonna

“We’re continually seeking this external stimuli and this external reassurance without realizing these are just stories that we’ve made up. And maybe these stories don’t serve us so well. Maybe they do in certain moments.” – Soren Gordhamer

“We have all this artificial intelligence, and don’t we don’t even know our own natural inner intelligence, and what kind of world are we going to create where we rely on the artificial when we don’t actually understand the natural?” – Soren Gordhamer

“And I think that’s really part of what I wanted to call out is that this world today is getting more and more complex, and the systems are getting more and more complex, and they’re not always here to serve us. They don’t have our well-being in mind” – Soren Gordhamer

“And I think the real work of this time, Jerry, is this kind of inter-exploration, which sees clearly all the ways in which we are missing the mark and all the parts of ourselves that we maybe don’t want to see and to see if we can discover some kind of deeper well of resonance and deeper source, which is in all of us all the time.” – Soren Gordhamer

“The most seaworthy vessels are actually supposed to be out on the seas in the torrential rains and storms. I think that’s why humans are built, too. We’re not built to just have an easy, simple life. We’re built for really good challenges and rising up to meet those challenges. And so this world in some ways is going through incredible disruption and chaos can be an invitation for all of us to step up and team together and partner together in ways we never maybe would because the challenge is so great, some deeper part of us has to show up.” – Soren Gordhamer

“No shift in the external world can satiate what is unresolved in our internal world that takes an inner dimension, and that’s what I feel like is the invitation.” – Soren Gordhamer

“If we don’t have our own natural intelligence, if we’re not connected to that, nothing can ever solve our problems. No artificial intelligence, as crazy and amazing as it is, is going to create the society we want.” – Soren Gordhamer