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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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Good Word of the Day // A New Poem

Yesterday I  Was In Love

It was perfect.

and I, perfectly In love.

Staring at this empty floor I am suddenly pulled back into my state of yesterday.

Is that available today?

Can we repeat such loveliness?

I was In love with…
…My boots.
…Nature’s Jukebox of breeze and bloom, sun rays and midnight rain.
…A meal that was enough.
…And Eyes that allowed me to see my child as my teacher.

Where do I begin today?

Just begin.
Again.
In love.

Final GTB

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