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Becoming Wise
Becoming Wise is an inquiry into the mystery and art of living. Peabody Award-winning journalist Krista Tippett engages wise lives of our day — from Brian Greene and Jon Kabat-Zinn to Brené...
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20 of 38 episodesReleasing Anger as an Act of Self-Compassion | Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman
The last episode of season two. Robert Thurman and Sharon Salzberg are icons of American Buddhism, and they are joyful, longtime friends. Th...
Healing Through Story | Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of our wisest models on the territory of reckoning with past wrongs that infuse and haunt the present. In the...
The Daily Opportunity in Randomness | Leonard Mlodinow
The physicist Leonard Mlodinow changes how we think about the agency we have in shaping our own destinies. As a scientist, he works with pri...
The Inner Life of Social Change | Ruby Sales
Public theologian Ruby Sales opens up what it was like to be a teenage participant in the civil rights movement — including the impatience s...
Empathy Rooted in Action | Terry Tempest Williams
Naturalist Terry Tempest Williams brings meaning and direction to the grief around ecological loss and climate change. She’s a self-describe...
Who We’re Called to Become | James Martin
Father James Martin is a beloved Jesuit writer and teacher who says desire ultimately is not selfish — and instead a path to understanding o...
Happiness Is Practice, Not Pleasure | Matthieu Ricard
Matthieu Ricard is helping us redefine happiness in a culture convinced that it’s a passive experience. The French-born Tibetan Buddhist mon...
A Planetary Sense of Love | Natalie Batalha
Astronomer Natalie Batalha embodies a planetary sense of what “love” is and means. She says her experience searching the universe for exopla...
Our Lives Can Be Signposts for What's Possible | Vincent Harding
A civil rights elder and speechwriter for Martin Luther King, Jr., the late Vincent Harding brought the wisdom of the movement to young peop...
Art and Justice Work Together | Rami Nashashibi
Rami Nashashibi champions how art can make humans visible to each other. He brings a new energy to Islam’s core commitment to beauty and hum...
Nurturing Our Children’s Souls | Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
A rabbi and parent, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso wants us to think about how we might teach our children’s souls, not just their minds. She says nu...
The Everyday Gift of Writing | Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye says writing is “an act that helps you, preserves you, energizes you in the very doing of it.” She calls herself a “wanderi...
Friendship and the Democratic Process | Kwame Anthony Appiah | Becoming Wise
Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah offers hope for quiet, sustained culture shift through the “endless shared conversation” of friendship. The...
Life Beyond the Mind | Eckhart Tolle
“There is a place inside me that is far more powerful than the continuous mental noise,” says Eckhart Tolle. The spiritual teacher began to...
We Believe Each Other into Being | Jennifer Michael Hecht
“Imagine yourself alone on this planet. Would anything be the same?” Jennifer Michael Hecht is a poet, philosopher, and historian who wants...
The Pilgrimage of “Who Am I?” | Paulo Coelho
Rediscover the wonder in the mundane and the everyday with writer Paulo Coelho. He reframes the practice of pilgrimage as a journey into the...
Season Two Trailer
A preview of season two, returning on Monday March 25, 2019. Hosted by Krista Tippett. Depth and discovery, in the time it takes to make a c...
Einstein Speaks to Us About Race | S. James Gates
“His capability to ask the ‘What if?’ question opened the door to the deepest marker of humanity, and that’s empathy.” Physicist S. James Ga...
Trauma and Resilience Land in Our Bodies | Bessel van der Kolk
“Trauma treatment starts at the foundation of a body that can sleep, a body that can rest, a body that feels safe, a body that can move.” Ps...