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On Being — 428 episodes · page 1 of 5
Jennifer Bailey and Lennon Flowers — An Invitation to Brave Space
Imani Perry - More Beautiful
Ta-Nehisi Coates — Imagining a New America
Katy Payne — In the Presence of Elephants and Whales
Gordon Hempton — Silence and the Presence of Everything
Shane Claiborne and Omar Saif Ghobash — Called and Conflicted
Darnell Moore — Self - Reflection And Social Evolution
Amichai Lau-Lavie — First Aid for Spiritual Seekers
Ross Gay — Tending Joy and Practicing Delight
Jonathan Rowson — Integrating Our Souls, Systems, and Society
Esther Perel — The Erotic is an Antidote to Death
Annette Gordon-Reed & Titus Kaphar — Are We Actually Citizens Here?
Indigo Girls — No Separation: On Music And Transcendence
Jerry Colonna — Can You Really Bring Your Whole Self to Work?
Richard Rohr — Growing Up Men
Jericho Brown — Small Truths and Other Surprises
Gregory Orr — Shaping Grief With Language
Abraham Verghese and Denise Pope — How Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
Rami Nashashibi and Lucas Johnson — Community Organizing as a Spiritual Practice
Sylvia Boorstein — What We Nurture
Atul Gawande — What Matters in the End
Joanna Macy — A Wild Love For The World
Wangari Maathai — Marching With Trees
Pádraig Ó Tuama — Belonging Creates and Undoes Us
Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Alexander, And Arnold Rampersad — W.E.B. Du Bois And The American Soul
‘Becoming Wise’ With Tools for the Art Of Living
Lawrence Kushner — Kabbalah and Everyday Mysticism
Sharon Olds — Odes to the *****
Jean Vanier — The Wisdom of Tenderness
Teju Cole — Sitting Together in the Dark
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn — Truth, Beauty, Banjo
Richard Davidson — A Neuroscientist on Love and Learning
Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Daniel Kahneman — Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other
Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach — Un-Becoming
Mary Oliver — Listening to the World
Claudia Rankine — How Can I Say This So We Can Stay in This Car Together?
Maira Kalman — Daily Things To Fall In Love With
David Whyte – The Conversational Nature Of Reality
Walter Brueggemann — The Prophetic Imagination
Pauline Boss — The Myth of Closure
Rebecca Traister and Avi Klein — #MeToo Through a Solutions Lens
Pico Iyer — The Urgency of Slowing Down
Rachel Naomi Remen — The Difference Between Fixing and Healing
Anand Giridharadas — When the Market Is Our Only Language
James Doty — The Magic Shop of the Brain
Tracy K. Smith — love is a language / Few practice, but all, or near all speak
Mirabai Bush — Contemplation, Life, and Work
Arlie Hochschild — The Deep Stories of Our Time
Sally Kohn and Erick Erickson — Relationship Across Rupture
Layli Long Soldier — The Freedom of Real Apologies
Frances Kissling — What Is Good in the Position of the Other
Seth Godin — Life, the Internet, and Everything
Eugene Peterson — The Bible, Poetry, and Active Imagination
Alan Rabinowitz — We Are All Wildlife
Mahzarin Banaji — The Mind Is a Difference-Seeking Machine
Joe Carter — The Spirituals
Alain de Botton — The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships
Cory Booker — Civic Spiritual Evolution
Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Intelligence In All Kinds Of Life
Luis Alberto Urrea — What Borders Are Really About, and What We Do With Them
Yo-Yo Ma — Music Happens Between the Notes
The Moral World in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt for Now — Lyndsey Stonebridge
America Ferrera And John Paul Lederach — How Change Happens, In Generational Time
Maria Shriver — Finding My “I Am”
Elizabeth Gilbert — Choosing Curiosity Over Fear
How Friendship and Quiet Conversations Transformed a White Nationalist
john a. powell — Opening to the Question of Belonging
Introducing The On Being Project
Nature, Joy, and Human Becoming
Carlo Rovelli — All Reality Is Interaction
angel Kyodo williams — The World Is Our Field of Practice
The Vitality of Ordinary Things
This Is Your Brain on Sex
Maria Popova and Natalie Batalha — Cosmic Imagining, Civic Pondering
The Soul in Depression
Naomi Shihab Nye — Your Life Is A Poem
Nathalie Joachim — Song of Haiti’s Women
Stephen Batchelor — Wondrous Doubt
Sylvia Earle — Her Deepness
Rubén Blades, Ashley C. Ford, David Greene, et al. — This Movie Changed Me
Brené Brown — Strong Back, Soft Front, Wild Heart
Sarah Bassin and Abdullah Antepli — Holy Envy
Mary Karr — Astonished by the Human Comedy
Kevin Kelly — The Universe Is A Question
Isabel Wilkerson — The Heart Is the Last Frontier
Christian Wiman — How Does One Remember God?
Claire Danes, Ellen Burstyn, Tracy K. Smith, et al. — Stories About Mystery
David Steindl-Rast — Anatomy of Gratitude
Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith
Anand Giridharadas and Whitney Kimball Coe — The Call to Community in a Changed World
Greg Boyle — The Calling of Delight: Gangs, Service, and Kinship
Ta-Nehisi Coates — Imagining a New America
Rachel Yehuda — How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations
Ellen Langer — Science of Mindlessness and Mindfulness
Jonathan Haidt — The Psychology of Self-Righteousness
Joan Halifax — Buoyancy Rather Than Burnout in Our Lives
Lisa Randall — Dark Matter, Dinosaurs, and Extra Dimensions
Arnold Eisen — The Opposite of Good Is Indifference
Junot Díaz — Radical Hope Is Our Best Weapon