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The Gathering Room Podcast

The Best of the Gathering Room - Episode 97: Building on Bright Spots

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5656 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We’ve got another Best of the Gathering Room episode for you today, a listener favorite called Building on Bright Spots. In this episode, Martha talks about finding and following the almost invisible “bright spots” in your life whenever things feel dark and cloudy. Because clouds are illusions, it's always possible to find little breaks in the clouds and see the clear points of truth that can guide you home. To find out how, tune in for the full episode—which might turn out to be a bright spot for you!

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0:00.0

Hello, gathering room friends. I am off gallivanting on a summer break. So while I'm doing that,

0:07.5

I hope you enjoy the best of the gathering room gathering pod coming right up. Welcome to the

0:16.2

gathering pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome, welcome to the

0:25.3

gathering room. We had a problem with our interweb. You'll notice I'm not in the same, the usual place.

0:32.9

That is because the interwebs are having a problem. Someone slashed through the cord out in a field. And you

0:41.0

guess which field it was? It was the field that Alexander Hamilton used as his headquarters

0:48.2

during the Revolutionary War. Isn't that cool? So the ghost of Alexander Hamilton canceled the gathering room until we

0:57.0

could like put it in this, you know, temporary space and they got the cable fixed. And so

1:02.2

Alexander Hamilton is haunting the gathering room and you should blame Alexander that we didn't

1:08.6

have a couple of sessions for a couple of weeks. But if you're listening

1:11.5

to this far in the future, you won't even know what I'm talking about. So let's get to the topic of the day.

1:16.6

Yeah. I was reading through, I like to read through my favorite special books, the ones that

1:22.6

comfort me and uplift me and help me get through any day. I have a little treasury of them. And sometimes it'll

1:28.9

just leave me cold and sometimes one book will jump out of me. You know how it is great. So I was looking

1:34.3

at a book today that I haven't looked at for donkey's years. I mean, a long time. And somewhere in

1:41.5

college, I had written in the margin of this book, Bright Spots.

1:47.8

I was like, what was that about?

1:50.6

You know, a hundred years ago.

1:52.8

And I remembered it.

1:55.7

And this is what happened.

1:57.7

It was the longest run I have ever taken.

2:04.8

I set off from my dorm in Cambridge, Massachusetts,

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