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The Ten Thousand Things

Sam Ellis, Joe Loh and Ali Catramados

Sometimes deep, often amusing, therapeutic chats touching on philosophy, spirituality, religion, consciousness, culture, music, dating, and life. Join Sam, Joe and Ali as they discuss the 10,000 illusions that make up “reality”. Musical theme by Ehsan Gelsi - Ephemera (Live at Melbourne Town Hall)

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63:01

The ones who like us back

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2025/10/22

Sam and Joe discuss a School of Life Quote: "But two truths would help:1. There aren't that many people we genuinely like.2. There aren't that many people who deeply like us back. The sooner we accept this, the gentler the experience becomes."

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56:53

Loneliness Vs Solitude

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2025/09/26

Sam and Joe discuss an Eckhart Tolle quote which launches them into a broader discussion of loneliness vs solitude. Also discussed is the latest post from Alain de Botton, you can find a link here: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxIxHSMpzz1Lc45g-e3W8bt_PMO3oFVYU4

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77:05

Attraction

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2025/08/26

Is this episode Joe and Sam get into attraction. Capricious, fleeting, hard to pin down. More than just boobs and bums and 90's pin ups? We seem to think so.

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61:16

Radical Honesty

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2025/08/14

Sam and Joe discuss listener Kate's question about "radical honesty". They also get into rigorous honesty, brutal honesty and kind honesty. Links:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_honestyhttps://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26792/honesty0707/Image: Giorgio Trovato

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60:15

Is there a higher purpose to the universe?

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2025/06/30

Sam and Joe discuss this quote:Behind the sometimes seemingly random or even chaotic succession of events in our lives as well as in the world lies concealed the unfolding of a higher order and purpose.This is beautifully expressed in the Zen saying "The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place." We can never understand this higher order through thinking about it because whatever we think about is content; whereas, the higher order emanates from the formless realm of consciousness,

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70:12

Talking neurodiversity and mental health with those...

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2025/06/16

Sam and Joe answer listener Lou's question which is:"How do you talk about mental health or neurodiversity with people who don’t get it?"Image: Noah Buscher

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82:48

Reactivity

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2025/06/02

Sam and Joe take on listener Liv’s topic about reaction, reactivity and being “triggered”. This leads to personal reflections on responses to geopolitical events and other things in life that lead them to react strongly. Some big world problems get a thorough going over and some interpersonal beefs get ironed out. Image: Johannes Plenio

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63:17

Tao Te Ching - Verse 2

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2025/05/17

Sam and Joe reunite to tackle Verse Two of the Tao Te Ching:Everybody on earth knowingthat beauty is beautifulmakes ugliness.Everybody knowingthat goodness is goodmakes wickedness. For being and nonbeingarise together;hard and easycomplete each other;long and shortshape each other;note and voicemake the music together;before and afterfollow each other. That’s why the wise souldoes without doing,teaches without talking.The things of this worldexist, they are;you can’t refuse them. To bear

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53:54

Tao Te Ching - Verse 1

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2025/04/06

Sam and Joe discuss Verse One of the Tao Te Ching and how it relates to their own experience of reality. TAO called TAO is not TAO.Names can name no lasting name.Nameless: the origin of heaven and earth.Naming: the mother of ten thousand things.Empty of desire, perceive mystery.Filled with desire, perceive manifestations.These have the same source, but different names.Call them both deep-Deep and deep again deep:The gateway to all mystery.Creators & GuestsJoe Loh - Host Sam Ellis

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69:25

Desiderata - Go placidly amidst the haste

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2025/01/12

Sam and Joe discuss the poem Desiderata and how it relates to their experience of life on earth.DesiderataGo placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with

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43:03

Making the darkness conscious

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2024/11/15

Sam and Joe are back after a long break with a juicy quote from their old friend Carl Jung. Myths, archetypes, figures of light, dark caves with dragons and treasure, it's a wild ride. Enjoy!

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5:35

Just One Thing - Eckhart Tolle

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2024/05/25

The root of this physical urge is a spiritual one. The longing for an end to duality, a return to the state of wholeness. Sexual union is the closest you can get to this state on the physical level. This is why it is the most deeply satisfying experience the physical realm can offer. But sexual union is no more than a fleeting glimpse of wholeness, an instant of bliss. As long as it is unconsciously sought as a means of salvation, you are seeking the end of duality. On the level of form

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62:09

Is Love the Drug?

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2024/05/17

Romantic Realities: Deconstructing the Romantic Love MythWe dive into the misconceptions of romantic love prevalent in Western culture, drawing on a quote from You Are the One You've Been Waiting For: Applying Internal Family Systems to Intimate Relationships, by Richard Swartz. Get the book from Internal Family Systems Institute at https://ifs-institute.com/you-are-one-youve-been-waitingSam mentions Let's Get Vulnerable: Relationship and Dating Advice podcast with Dr Morgan, yet again, but

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50:27

Sam reads your listener notes

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2024/05/09

Listeners are producers. Thank you for getting the show out.I reflect on my own podcast listening: helpful with insomnia, and a lifeline during tough times. Write me hereReading a wide range of listener notes, I respond and explore personal themes:vulnerabilitythoughts on how to engage usefully with attachment theory, to go looking for the things we don't want to saythe two breakdown eps from Joe and Alivoyeurism: when is it okay to listen to people spilling about intense experiencesI say

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3:24

Just One Thing - Ep 4 - Jack Kornfield

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2024/05/03

What we take to be a self is tentative, fictitious, constructed by clinging, a temporary identification with some parts of experience. Self arises, solidifying itself, like ice floating in water. Ice is actually made of the same substance as water. Identification and clinging harden the water into ice. In a similar way, we sense ourself as separate. Jack Kornfield - The Wise HeartThis realization that the separate self is an illusion must be one of the most useful things I've ever learned

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54:05

Film

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2024/04/30

Thinking back on favourite films, it becomes clear what they say about us. Cinema, the Psyche, unveiling Inner HeroesIt's always therapy and psychoanalysis around here, movies are the vehicle. Favourite films reflect deep psychological themes and evolving personal identities. What we once found aspirational in a character, we might later rethink, or realise it was not the healthiest hero to have. Others may have been right for the time. So we mainly talk about movies our younger selves were

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2:32

Just One Thing - Ep 3 - Joseph Campbell

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2024/04/26

“I have really found when I look around that the romantic love I see is this ideal, the anima. The anima is the ideal that you carry within yourself that you put onto the different entities out there and you unite with that. Pretty soon you see through the projection. And then what happens?”Transcript:That's Joseph Campbell from an interview he did. I won’t pretend to be an expert on what the anima is but I took note of this because it resonated with me. I can see that I've done this

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54:24

Bromance

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2024/04/24

Do most straight men reserve their truest love and romance for other men? Marilyn Frye thinks so, and today we consider a quote from her classic book of feminist essays The Politics of RealityWe found ourselves in agreement with Frye's observations. But we debate and detail the angles: Is heterosexual male culture (always) homoerotic?Do men save their 'best' for each other?Do many men find truer friendship with other men because they feel more comfortable around each other? Why?Is this a

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2:46

Just One Thing - Ep 2 - Alain de Botton

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2024/04/19

To be a loving person is to wrestle with a profoundly improbable idea: that however modest our position in society might be, however much we may have been maltreated in the past, however mesmerised we are by the deplorable behaviour of powerful individuals, however shy and frail we are, we are constantly capable of causing other people significant hurt. Alain de Botton in A More Loving World: How to increase compassion, kindness and joyCreators & GuestsJoe Loh - Host This is the

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62:28

FOMO, JOMO and beyond

The Ten Thousand Things ·

2024/04/16

Moving from Fear, to Joy of Missing Out and beyond both. FOMO arises from projection and fantasy, as does a lot of the imagined enjoyment of the imagined pleasures.We might imagine that:everything we want is outside ourselvespleasure, meaning or peak experiences must be mediated by something: people, substances, or outside eventsthat we have to follow a formula to achieve themWe chew over the classic cliche FOMO of music festivals, and unearth some insights: the positives of turning towards

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