Every little thing that you think that you think that you need

Every little thing you think that you need

Every little thing that's just feeding your greed

Oh I bet that you'd be fine without it.

Yes, hello simpletons.

Welcome to the minimalist podcast, where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less.

My name is Joshua Fields Milburn, and joining me here at Earthing Studios in beautiful West Hollywood, California,

is my good friend T.K. Coleman. My people, what is happening?

Oh, welcome back. You were, uh, were you, Mount Carmel recently?

Hey, man, I wish I was at the literal Mount Carmelite retreat. I was at a Carmelite retreat. I was at a monastery,

Carmelite monastery on a silent retreat. Is there like a lot of meditation? What's going on there when you're doing that? Yeah, you basically only got like a few things you can do. You can go into

the chapel and pray. You can go out to the garden. You can take a walk out in nature or you can go

into kind of like a meditation room and meditate and read. But that's it. No one's allowed to talk to

you. You're not allowed to talk to them. And so what's beautiful is not just what you can discover

about yourself with the silence, but also you understand that communion and conversation are not

necessarily the same thing because there are moments where you need people and you got to connect

with them, but you can't use your words. That reminds me growing up with my brother, Jerome, we would spend like almost every moment of every day together, and we almost

never talked. We were communing all the time. It didn't require, it's almost like we had transcended

some level of needing that surface level conversation. I think Nicodemus and I got to that point

when we were on tour for very long stretches of time.

We'd be on the road in his Toyota Camry or Corolla

for 10 months at a time, just driving.

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