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Robin Wall Kimmerer and Azita Ardakani Walton — To Bring Life Into a Trembling World

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Michael Pollan — The Mystery of Consciousness

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“The Fierce Urgency of Now” — Michelle Alexander and Lucas Johnson

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Shai Held — On Love, and Judaism

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Jason Reynolds — On Hopelessness, the Virtue of Stamina, and Showing Grace to Ourselves

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Arab Aramin, Robi Damelin, Liora Eilon, Mohamed Abu Jafar — Turning Unbearable Loss Into Ground of Shared Life

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Gül Dölen — Psychedelic Science and Radical Healing

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Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith – "This world is full of everything good, everything beautiful."

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A New Season for a Tender New Year

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Jane Goodall, In Memoriam — What It Means to Be Human

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Joanna Macy, In Memoriam — Beauty and Wisdom and Courage (and Rilke) to Sustain Us

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Ross Gay — Hope Portal, Episode 7

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Joy Harjo — The Hope Portal Ep. 6

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Joanna Macy — Hope Portal, Episode 5

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Ocean Vuong — Hope Portal, Episode 4

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Naomi Shihab Nye — Hope Portal, Episode 3

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Walter Brueggemann, In Memoriam — When the World We Have Trusted In Is Vanishing

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adrienne maree brown — Hope Portal, Episode 2

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Krista Tippett — Hope Portal, Episode 1

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Roberta Bondi — What is Prayer and How to Begin

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Yochi Fischer and Loaay Wattad — On Seeing the Trauma of the Other

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Jason Reynolds and Kessley Janvier — On Being Young In America

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David Bornstein — On Our Lives with the News

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Katsi Cook — "Women are the First Environment"

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Justin Vernon — Being Bon Iver

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A New Season of On Being

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Remembering Nikki Giovanni — ‘We Go Forward With a Sanity and a Love’

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Joan Baez — "This Gift of a Voice"

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adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life

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“The End of Poetry” by Ada Limón

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Atul Gawande — On Mortality and Meaning

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“Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” by Elizabeth Alexander

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Luis Alberto Urrea — On Our Belonging to Each Other

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Ross Gay — On the Insistence of Joy

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Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton — On Nature's Wisdom for Humanity

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Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan

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Christine Runyan — On Healing Our Distressed Nervous Systems

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“Joy is the Justice (We Give Ourselves)” by J. Drew Lanham

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Lyndsey Stonebridge and Lucas Johnson — On Love, Politics, and Violence (Channeling Hannah Arendt)

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New From Poetry Unbound: A Series on Conflict and the Human Condition

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Colette Pichon Battle — On Knowing What We're Called To

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Kate DiCamillo — On Nurturing Capacious Hearts

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Nick Cave — Loss, Yearning, Transcendence

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A Word from Krista

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Sara Hendren — Our Bodies, Aliveness, and the Built World

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Christiana Figueres — Ecological Hope, and Spiritual Evolution

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Clint Smith — What We Know in the "Marrow of Our Bones"

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“Dance Party” by Clint Smith

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“Ode to Those First Fifteen Minutes After the Kids Are Finally Asleep” by Clint Smith

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[Extended] Clint Smith with Krista Tippett

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Three Skills for Staying Calm, Sane, and Open in a Chaotic World | Krista interviewed by Dan Harris for Ten Percent Happier

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Latanya Sweeney — On Shaping Technology to Human Purpose

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[Unedited] Latanya Sweeney with Krista Tippett

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Matthew Sanford — The Body's Grace

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Baratunde Thurston — How to Be a Social Creative

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Reid Hoffman — AI, and What It Means to Be (More) Human

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Kerry Washington — Acting as a Devotional Practice

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Kate Bowler — On Being in a Body

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Kate Bowler — A Blessing for the Life You Didn't Choose

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A New Season of On Being Is Coming

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"Love is still the only revenge. It grows each time the earth is set on fire."

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From Poetry Unbound: Benjamin Gucciardi — The Rungs

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Patronage and Love: On Being's Becoming

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Vivek Murthy — To Be a Healer

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Vivek Murthy — A Meditation for Moments of Despair, and To Feel Less Alone

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[Unedited] Vivek Murthy with Krista Tippett

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Barbara Brown Taylor — “This Hunger for Holiness”

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[Unedited] Barbara Brown Taylor with Krista Tippett

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Ruth Wilson Gilmore — “Where life is precious, life is precious.”

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Janine Benyus — Biomimicry, an Operating Manual for Earthlings

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Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative

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Isabel Wilkerson — "We all know in our bones that things are harder than they have to be."

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James Bridle — The Intelligence Singing All Around Us

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[Unedited] James Bridle with Krista Tippett

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Nick Offerman — Working with Wood, and the Meaning of Life

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Ada Limón — “To Be Made Whole”

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“A New National Anthem” by Ada Limón

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“Dead Stars” by Ada Limón

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“The Quiet Machine” by Ada Limón

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Amanda Ripley — Stepping out of "the zombie dance" we're in, and into "good conflict" that is, in fact, life-giving

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Dacher Keltner — The Thrilling New Science of Awe

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Emergence: On Being Is Back!

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Foundations 4: Calling and Wholeness

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Foundations 3: Taking a Long View of Time, and Becoming “Critical Yeast”

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Foundations 2: Living the Questions

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Foundations 1: Seeing the Generative Story of Our Time

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A Listening Ritual for this Fall: Poetry Unbound

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A Season of Emergence with Krista

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BONUS: An On Being Listening Party — Celebrating 20 Years

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[Unedited] adrienne maree brown with Krista Tippett

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Ocean Vuong — A Life Worthy of Our Breath

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[Unedited] Ocean Vuong with Krista Tippett

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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson — What If We Get This Right?

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[Unedited] Ayana Elizabeth Johnson with Krista Tippett

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Rachel Naomi Remen – How We Live With Loss

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[Unedited] Rachel Naomi Remen with Krista Tippett

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David Whyte — Seeking Language Large Enough

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"Everything is Waiting for You" by David Whyte

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"Working Together" by David Whyte

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"Sweet Darkness" by David Whyte