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Greybeard Philosophy is the audio companion to the GreybeardPhilosophy.com blog. Each episode is a narrated essay—rooted in wilderness, shaped by timeless guides, and written for everyday life—and ends with a short internal practice you can do in minutes.
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The Long Ascent: When we forget to look up (opens the original)
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What happens when we're so busy climbing that we stop seeing the mountain? In the first episode of a new Greybeard Philosophy series, Dr. Brian Winsor returns from California's Sierra Nevada with a deeper question about the inner life: What exactly is Base Camp? The journey begins on the long ascent from North Lake toward Piute Pass. As elevation, fatigue, comparison, and endless granite steps narrow Brian's world to a simple cadence—right, left, one; right, left, two—he realizes that his strate
Preparing to Find Base Camp: Remembering Home (opens the original)
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Preparing for the High Sierra—and discovering that Base Camp may be a place of remembrance more than a destination. This month, Dr. Brian Winsor prepares for a backpacking journey into California's High Sierra. But this episode isn't about summiting a mountain. It's about preparing to remember. Drawing from a recent shakedown hike through Alabama's Sipsey Wilderness, William Wordsworth's Ode: Intimations of Immortality , and the ancient Hasidic story of the treasure beneath the hearth, Brian exp
The Two Hungers of the Soul: The Hunger for More (opens the original)
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The hunger for applause asks, “Who saw me?” The hunger for more asks, “What lack I yet?” In this episode of Greybeard Philosophy, Dr. Brian Winsor continues the series The Two Hungers of the Soul . First we explored the hunger for applause: the desire to be seen, praised, admired, and affirmed. Now we turn toward the hunger for more: the quiet belief that peace is located just beyond the next acquisition, achievement, project, possession, title, or proof. Through the story of the rich young man
The Two Hungers of the Soul: The Hunger for Applause (opens the original)
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In this episode of Greybeard Philosophy, Brian reflects on a difficult trek into the Sipsey Wilderness with Carleigh-dog and the deeper wilderness it revealed: the hunger for applause. The trail does not validate your parking or your ego. Itasks only what you are carrying now. Through Epictetus, Jesus, Siddhartha, Base Camp, and the honest pressure of heat, storm, fatigue, and humility, this episode explores motive, praise, and the discipline of doing the deed withoutneeding applause as its wage
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