{"id":27954,"date":"2026-10-29T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=27954"},"modified":"2026-10-28T18:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:25:43","slug":"the-point-of-insight-enter-the-river","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/podcast\/the-point-of-insight-enter-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"The Point of Insight | Enter the River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" src=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/1632d73c-91ea-42a8-a3db-a62b135d081c\/episodes\/7f4f61cd-ab56-41e4-a928-1aa025010497\/embed?theme=light-custom&amp;primary_color=%23F60F60\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do Hermann Hesse&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Siddhartha<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a roadside run-in with the law, and conversations with Eckhart Tolle, Caroline Myss, Rob Bell, and Liz Gilbert have in common? In this month&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Point of Insight<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Tami Simon follows a single image \u2014 the river \u2014 through her own life and through the teachers she&#8217;s spent twenty years interviewing, and asks what it means to finally stop resisting the current and enter it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Point of Insight<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Tami explores:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How Hermann Hesse&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Siddhartha<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> first introduced her as a young person to the river as a symbol of timelessness and impermanence<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A humbling roadside encounter with a police officer that became an unplanned teaching on the dangers of &#8220;self-congratulatory&#8221; thinking<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eckhart Tolle&#8217;s answer to a question he&#8217;s asked often at retreats: how do you know if you&#8217;re making progress on the spiritual path?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A practice from Caroline Myss&#8217;s new Spiritual Homebase community, viewing a current challenge first through the lens of fear, then through the lens of faith<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Author and former megachurch pastor Rob Bell on reframing risk, and why the risk of not taking a risk is often the greater one<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elizabeth Gilbert&#8217;s new memoir, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All the Way to the River<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, her relationship with Rayya Elias, and the &#8220;two doors&#8221; conversation that changed the course of her life<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Buddhist teaching of the &#8220;stream-enterer,&#8221; one of the earliest stages of awakening to an impermanent, flowing nature<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For anyone standing at the edge of a change, a risk, or an uncertainty they haven&#8217;t yet stepped into \u2014 press play and enter the river.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if you\u2019re intrigued by any of the guests mentioned in this episode, be sure to visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/soundstrue.com\/podcast\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">soundstrue.com\/podcast<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to find their full episodes of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insights at the Edge<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26227,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[1085],"tags":[170,242],"contributor":[487],"class_list":["post-27954","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-growth","tag-insights-at-the-edge","tag-tami-simon","contributor-tami-simon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Point of Insight | Enter the River | Sounds True<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Point of Insight | Enter the River | Sounds True\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What do Hermann Hesse&#8217;s Siddhartha, a roadside run-in with the law, and conversations with Eckhart Tolle, Caroline Myss, Rob Bell, and Liz Gilbert have in common? 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