The Inner Peace That Leads to Generous Love with Stephen G. Post, Ph.D.

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We live in a world of overwhelming uncertainties that threaten to erode our innate ability to maintain inner peace, which is essential for life to flourish. This inner peace, as expressed by love, exists as goodness itself and is the strongest alternative to helplessness, resentment, hate, insanity, bitterness, and crazy violence. Here, we focus our attention on the capacity for a generous love that embraces such virtues as kindness, courage, forgiveness, gratitude, dignity for all, and hope. Post emphasizes the importance of kindness, deep listening, the benefits of volunteering, raising kind children, and the significance of nature. Post also emphasized the need for freedom and creativity, citing examples from his work and personal life as he outlines seven paths to inner peace. (hosted by Justine Willis Toms).

Bio

Stephen G. Post, Ph.D. is among a handful of individuals awarded the distinguished service award by the National Alzheimer's Association. In 2001 he founded The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, which researches and distributes knowledge on kindness, giving and spirituality. Post served as a co-chair of the United Nations Population Fund Conference on Spirituality and Global Transformation. He's a professor in the Department of Preventative Medicine at Stony Brook University and founder and director of the Stony Brook Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics. He's a leader in medicine research and religion and the author of several books.

Stephen G Post’s books include:

• The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2nd edition 2000)
• Why Good Things Happen to Good People: How to Live Longer, Healthier, Happier Life by the Simple Act of Giving (Broadway Books 2008)
  God and Love on Route 80: The Hidden Mystery of Human Connectedness (Mango 2019)
• Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People (Johns Hopkins University Press 2022)
• Pure Unlimited Love: Science and the Seven Paths to Inner Peace (Morehouse Publishing 2025)

To learn more about the work of Stephen G. Post go to www.stephengpost.com

Topics explored in this dialogue include:

• What was the pivotal decision to follow his calling despite his father's objections
• What is meant by “One Mind” that connects us all
• What was Post’s harrowing experience as a passenger on a wild ride on a Shovelhead motorcycle
• What was Post’s personal experience of the phenomenon of non-local mind
• What is Post’s technique in his mentoring of medical students: “stop, look, listen”
• How did Post prevent a man from jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge
• How did Post receive the Buddhist chant, Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo
• How the mind is bigger than the brain
•  How laughter can reverse our emotional state
•  How love is manifested with the act of kindness
• Why it is important to allow the natural kindness in children to blossom
• How the beauty of nature inspires awe
• What is nature deficit disorder and why did Steve Jobs refuse to give his daughter an iPhone until she went to college
• How volunteering can lead to personal creativity and your calling

Host: Justine Willis Toms    Interview Date: 8/22/2025   Program Number: 3849

Music Playlist

From Album: Open Domain
Artist: Charlie Bommarito

Essay music: Track 03 Whoville
Midbreak music: Track 04 Night of the Jackal