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Season two of Becoming Wise is a wrap! We’re so grateful you joined us for these months of reflection and...
Releasing 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...
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...
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...
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 —...
Empathy Rooted in Action | Terry Tempest Williams
Naturalist Terry Tempest Williams brings meaning and direction to the grief around ecological loss and climate...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
A preview of season two, returning on Monday March 25, 2019. Hosted by Krista Tippett. Depth and discovery, in...
#19 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...
#20 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...
