The Balance of Adventure and Spiritual Growth with Douglas Westerbeke
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Douglas Westerbeke, explores how to find the balance of adventure and spiritual growth in his writing and life. With a focus on resilience and a balanced approach to life transitions, he offers a valuable perspective for those seeking to understand and adapt to the inevitable changes in life. Through his compelling narratives, he brings a wealth of knowledge to the complexities of personal growth and change.
Key Takeaways:
- Mastering techniques to manage anger and its impact for a balanced life
- Unveiling the profound concept of enlightenment for personal growth and fulfillment
- Discovering the pivotal role of libraries in expanding knowledge and fostering personal development
- Understanding the profound effects of travel for adapting for resilience and growth
- Navigating life changes through powerful storytelling for inspiration and empowerment
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| 0:00.0 | The other theme of the book is that our happiness, our sense of wonder, whatever it is it makes us happy |
| 0:05.8 | depends on the stories we write for ourselves because we're always writing a story. |
| 0:09.7 | You have this internal monologue in your head all the time, right? You're talking to yourself. |
| 0:13.4 | Gossed. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the |
| 0:26.0 | importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you |
| 0:31.2 | are what you think, ring true. And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen |
| 0:36.6 | or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that |
| 0:46.4 | hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative action. about how other people keep themselves |
| 0:53.0 | consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:57.0 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
| 1:01.0 | how they feed their good wolf. On Thanksgiving Day 1999, five-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, was found off the coast of Florida. |
| 1:26.7 | And the question was, should the boy go back to his father in Cuba? |
| 1:30.9 | Mr. Gonzales wanted to go home, and he wanted to take his son with him. |
| 1:34.8 | Or stay with his relatives in Miami. |
| 1:37.1 | Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom. |
| 1:41.6 | Listen to Chees' peace, the Eelian Gonzalez story, |
| 1:45.0 | on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, |
| 1:47.8 | or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey Bo. |
| 1:54.0 | Hey Matt. |
| 1:55.0 | Are you ready to tell the readers about the extra special episode we have coming up? |
| 1:59.0 | I think we have to let them in in our little surprise. |
| 2:02.0 | Yeah, if you haven't already figured it out, |
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