What Do We Really Want? (With Strahan Coleman)

Everyone has deep desires. But what is our deepest desire? And how do we deal with the problem of satisfying that desire. Writer, award-winning folk musician, and spiritual director Strahan Coleman joins Joseph Holmes and Nathan Clarkson to dive into what we want and how we can have it today.

Links to resources discussed in the episode:

Basics of Budhism: https://www.pbs.org/edens/thailand/buddhism.htm

The Stoics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/

 

Augustine and Desire: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/an-analysis-of-one-of-the-greatest-sentences-ever-written/

Charlotte Fox's 12 Universal Desires:

https://healthforlifegr.com/examining-the-deepest-human-desires-charlotte-fox-weber/#:~:text=In%20her%20book%2C%20Charlotte%20Fox,have%20what%20we%20shouldn't.

8 Things People Desire But Can't Attain:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathycaprino/2016/05/24/the-top-8-things-people-desperately-desire-but-cant-seem-to-attain/

 

Blesses

Book - Georgia Douglas Johnson Poetry
Book - The Religious Sense
Movie - Deadpool and Wolverine
Book - Surprised By Joseph Holmes
Movie - The Book of Clarence
TV Shows - Agatha All Along
Thinker - Teresa of Avila
Thinker - St. John of the Cross
Book - The Cloud of Unknowing
TV Show - Bridgerton

Curses

Movie - Saturday Night
Movie - Joker: Folie à Deux
Good Cafes that serve terrible coffee

Overthinkers Team Contact and Websites:

The Overthinkers: theoverthinkersjournal.world

Nathan Clarkson: nathanclarkson.me

Joseph Holmes: josephholmesstudios.com

Strahan Coleman Links and Websites:

Thirsting: Quenching Our Soul's Deepest Desire: https://www.amazon.com/Thirsting-Quenching-Souls-Deepest-Desire/dp/0830785205

Beholding Prayer Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beholding-prayer/id1669562572

Commoners Communion: https://www.commonerscommunion.com/about