The Nature of Reality: A Seth Podcast
Sep 24, 2026 · 8 min · 7 segments
In this episode, Dave explores Dr. Tien-Sheng Hsu's spiritual perspective on diabetes as a signal of lost vitality and offers a simple daily practice to help listeners reclaim joy and support healing…
David SelakHost
Many people living with the condition move through their days without real passion or pleasure.

A patient once shared with me that he had closed his small shop a few years ago due to a decline in the economy.

Since then, he had been living a life of tea drinking, chit-chatting, and newspaper reading.

He was very surprised a year later when he was diagnosed with diabetes since he was only 51 years old.

He was not happy about any of this and started to have symptoms of chronic depression.

The survivors of diabetes are those people who have figured out how to live a happier life than the one they had before they got sick.

Many people living with the condition move through their days without real passion or pleasure.

A patient once shared with me that he had closed his small shop a few years ago due to a decline in the economy.

Since then, he had been living a life of tea drinking, chit-chatting, and newspaper reading.

He was very surprised a year later when he was diagnosed with diabetes since he was only 51 years old.

He was not happy about any of this and started to have symptoms of chronic depression.

The survivors of diabetes are those people who have figured out how to live a happier life than the one they had before they got sick.
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