…is the pace where we can feel, taste, see, respond, and enjoy.
Rushing the ingredients always messes up the meal.
Let it be.
Let it breathe.
Let it bloom.
Power and force are two different conversations.
Ashton.Gustafson
Pause by the orchid. Listen to the bluebird sing. Be love.
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Podcast 50: Crafting a Life of Curiosity with Pat Dodd
Pat Dodd resides in San Diego, California. With the backdrop of an oceanic horizon, Pat seeks to find, enjoy, and experience all of the wonderful gifts life has to offer.
With spiritual curiosity and cultivated relationships around the context of music, he joins us in this episode of Let The Music Play Podcast as we discuss life, wisdom, and the school of love.
You can download this episode and all other episodes of Let The Music Play Podcast in iTunes and at AshtonGustafson.com.
PS – Check out the show notes below.
Ryan Booth (director and partner of SerialBox)
pdodd.com (Blog, Music)
Music
The LTP / #DoddNod Playlist includes all of the following:
Rayland Baxter
Colony House
Blake Mills (and an old video profile, but so good)
Books
Rework by Jason Fried (and look out for the Calm Company)
A look at Pipes where Pat surf most days.
Today…
Allow abundance to have the final say.
Look don’t think.
Listen don’t react.
Learn the moment before you judge, critique, label, or condemn it.
Let it be and then let yourself be.
Inhale ‘yes’.
Exhale ‘now’.
The School of Love is always in session.
Progress & Profit are not the same thing…
In the link below you will find a wonderful, beautiful, and inspiring written dialogue between Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett. It’s fascinating and so very inspiring.
Please click the link below and behold this wonderful dialogue.
It’s our job to share good news…so please share this.
I pray your success leads you to ask bigger, better, and more beautiful questions.
Discovering-Honoring-Relating
Once you’ve discovered the light within, which has always been there, another door opens for you to discover that this light you bear is also found within everyone else too.
And the same can be said for everything and everyone.
Everything…and everyone.
The good.
The bad.
The painful.
The beautiful.
Think of a time when you discovered another soul that had a passion for something that you had as well. Immediately a “me to” bridge connected you to them. And what about the time(s) you randomly crossed paths with someone that also had a similar struggle or synonymous pain? Those “me too” moments somehow also created a bridge to a place that was safe and not so lonely.
How fascinating! Both the pain and the pleasure can connect us to the ones we weren’t connected with.
Something deep inside of me tells me that union is the point to all of this.
All of this: the work, the joy, the pain, and the pleasure. It seems that history is pointing in the direction of a wonderful reunion with all things.
So find what you have experienced to be true: the songs, the suffering, the flavors, the struggles, and the joy…and claim them.
And with open hands and hearts, live out your days and walk with the hope of divine happenstance. Because someone soon will cross this path of yours and you just might need each other. This is called solidarity. This is called vulnerability. This is what it means to be human.
And then there will be a re-union of some sort…
…and I can’t think of a better plot, theme, or punchline for the happenings of our universe.
Ashton.Gustafson 