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At the center of the universe…

…there is a jazz trio: joy, generosity, and reciprocity. The music they make creates endless waves – each named ‘gift’ – upon which we can surf with our lives, relationships, and vocations.

At the center of our individual, small worlds, there is a scorecard and endless games that involve boundaries, rules, fouls, and the tallying of points as time expires.

Which center will you pledge your allegiance to?

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Good Word of the Day // Doing Without

“We are happy in direct proportion to the things we can do without.” Henry David Thoreau

Episode 259: What Has Been There All Along with Don Oakley – Good / True / & Beautiful | with Ashton Gustafson

Don Oakley is a spiritual teacher and the co-founder and director of the Well Being Retreat Center in Northeast Tennessee, where he and his wife, Patty, have spent nearly two decades creating a space for spiritual exploration, personal transformation, and awakening.Through retreats, teachings, and his growing online presence, Don invites others to move beyond the endless pursuit of self-improvement and rediscover the wholeness, peace, and awareness that have been present within them all along.In this episode of Good, True, & Beautiful, Don joins Ashton Gustafson to explore the difference between being and becoming, the illusion of the separate self, and the liberating realization that our deepest nature is not something we must achieve, but something we can simply recognize.Learn more: wellbeingretreatcenter.org
  1. Episode 259: What Has Been There All Along with Don Oakley
  2. Episode 258: The Heart of Transformation with Michael Meade
  3. Episode 257: There's Nothing Wrong with You – Dr. Rick Diamond
  4. Episode 256: An Intro to Poetry with Brad Aaron Modlin
  5. Episode 255: The Language of the Soul with Mark Nepo

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