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On Being with Krista Tippett
Wisdom to replenish and orient in a tender, tumultuous time to be alive. Spiritual inquiry, science, social healing, and poetry. Conversations to live by. With a 20-year archive featuring luminaries like Mary Oliver, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Desmond Tutu, each episode brings a new discovery about t...
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Letters to a Young Poet
The speaker cites a passage from Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet" as inspiration for the concept of "living the questions" and advises listeners to be patient with the unsolved parts of their hearts and to try to love the questions themselves.
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Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.
— Episode: Foundations 2: Living the Questions
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Episode: Foundations 2: Living the Questions
The speaker cites a passage from Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet" as inspiration for the concept of "living the questions" and advises listeners to be patient with the unsolved parts of their hearts and to try to love the questions themselves.
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Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.
Don't search for the answers which could not be given to you now because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now, perhaps then someday far in the future, you will gradually without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
If you are faithful to living a question, that question will be faithful back to you.
Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880
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AN Inconvenient Truth
The Crisis of Global Warming
Majora Carter referenced Al Gore's book and documentary, highlighting its impact and also the disconnect between the official environmental movement and the lived realities of those in under-resourced communities.
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But his documentary and book and Inconvenient Truth had solidified his role as an icon of American environmentalism.
— Episode: Cal DeWitt and Majora Carter — Discoveri...
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Episode: Cal DeWitt and Majora Carter — Discovering Where W...
Majora Carter referenced Al Gore's book and documentary, highlighting its impact and also the disconnect between the official environmental movement and the lived realities of those in under-resourced communities.
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But his documentary and book and Inconvenient Truth had solidified his role as an icon of American environmentalism.
Are people in your neighborhood watching AN Inconvenient Truth? No, they won't even show it in neighborhoods like ours. And I think that is part of the problem.
The End of History and the Last Man
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The Philosophy of Loyalty
This book, published at the beginning of the 20th century, by philosopher Royce argued that people have a deep need to live for something larger than themselves.
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I end up calling it loyalty in the book I wrote about Royce. A philosopher who was at Harvard in the late 19th century and wrote a book at the very beginning of the 20th century called The Phi...
— Episode: Atul Gawande — On Mortality and Meaning
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Episode: Atul Gawande — On Mortality and Meaning
This book, published at the beginning of the 20th century, by philosopher Royce argued that people have a deep need to live for something larger than themselves.
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I end up calling it loyalty in the book I wrote about Royce. A philosopher who was at Harvard in the late 19th century and wrote a book at the very beginning of the 20th century called The Philosophy of Loyalty. And what it meant was that we all have a, he was arguing we all have a deep need to live for something larger than ourselves.
The Trayvon Generation
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A Novel
Kate Young, who was having a meeting with Ross Gay and a friend to discuss the excerpt of her graphic novel, pulled out a box from her bag containing her beautifully drawn pages. It was a very special moment of appreciation for Ross Gay.
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When Kate pulled the box from her bag that contains all her beautifully drawn pages, her beautiful cargo, and her beautiful book, our little press is going to publish. When Kate pulled the box from he...
— Episode: Ross Gay — On the Insistence of Joy
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Episode: Ross Gay — On the Insistence of Joy
Kate Young, who was having a meeting with Ross Gay and a friend to discuss the excerpt of her graphic novel, pulled out a box from her bag containing her beautifully drawn pages. It was a very special moment of appreciation for Ross Gay.
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When Kate pulled the box from her bag that contains all her beautifully drawn pages, her beautiful cargo, and her beautiful book, our little press is going to publish. When Kate pulled the box from her bag that contains all her beautifully drawn pages, her beautiful cargo, which she's calling 11, I noticed a tag on the interior of her backpack with a space for a name and phone number.
Nature of Investing
Resilient Investment Strategies Through Biomimicry
Catherine Collins, who took the two-year biomimicry course, went on to write "The Nature of Investing" based on natural principles and a feminine, circular ethic of investing.
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And Catherine Collins, who's here, introduced us.
— Episode: Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton...
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Episode: Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton — On Natur...
Catherine Collins, who took the two-year biomimicry course, went on to write "The Nature of Investing" based on natural principles and a feminine, circular ethic of investing.
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And Catherine Collins, who's here, introduced us.
And Catherine Collins, who's here, had taken the two-year course, like Azita has, and went on to write *The Nature of Investing*.
Man's Search for Meaning
The book was referenced during a discussion about pausing and choosing in the face of stress. The speaker had recently reread it but couldn't find a specific quote they were looking for, which they attributed to the book.
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Between stimulus and response, there is a space. And in that space lies our power to choose. And in our choice lies our growth and our freedom.
— Episode: Christine Runyan — On Healing Our Distre...
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Episode: Christine Runyan — On Healing Our Distressed Nervo...
The book was referenced during a discussion about pausing and choosing in the face of stress. The speaker had recently reread it but couldn't find a specific quote they were looking for, which they attributed to the book.
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Between stimulus and response, there is a space. And in that space lies our power to choose. And in our choice lies our growth and our freedom.
Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves
This is a live adaptation of the piece that appears in his new book of poetry. It was read at an On Being event in January 2024 and explores the themes of justice, freedom, and resilience.
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Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves. This is a live adaptation of the piece that appears in his new book of poetry.
— Episode: “Joy is the Justice (We Give Ourselves)”...
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Episode: “Joy is the Justice (We Give Ourselves)” by J. Dre...
This is a live adaptation of the piece that appears in his new book of poetry. It was read at an On Being event in January 2024 and explores the themes of justice, freedom, and resilience.
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Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves. This is a live adaptation of the piece that appears in his new book of poetry.
Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves.
Joy is the steady running stream, rights sprung up from moss soft ground, under hanging trees nourished by blood, grown through pain, now seeping sweet. Equalities demands made clear from sea to shining sea, north to south, west to east, fly over heartland in between.
Joy is the truth, the crooked lies hammered straight, white washed midst wiped away.
Joy is the sunrise breaking through night's remains, shown new on a shell-racked shore. A fresh tide scrubbed world redeems what was to is.
Eichmann in Jerusalem
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We Are Free to Change the World
Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience
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Miracle Fair
Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska
The poem "A Word on Statistics" was featured and discussed, and it was mentioned that it comes from Szymborska's book "Miracle Fair".
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A word on statistics comes from Wisawa Zimborska's book, Miracle Fair.
— Episode: New From Poetry Unbound: A Series on Con...
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Episode: New From Poetry Unbound: A Series on Conflict and...
The poem "A Word on Statistics" was featured and discussed, and it was mentioned that it comes from Szymborska's book "Miracle Fair".
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A word on statistics comes from Wisawa Zimborska's book, Miracle Fair.
Faith, Hope and Carnage
The book, which was co-created by Nick Cave, is an exquisite conversation with journalist Sen O'Hagan about grief and loss. It is in the form of an electric conversation.
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He has entered yet another transfigured era, co-created an exquisite book called Faith, Hope and Carnage, and become a frank and eloquent interlocutor on grief.
— Episode: Nick Cave — Loss, Yearning, Transcendenc...
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Episode: Nick Cave — Loss, Yearning, Transcendence
The book, which was co-created by Nick Cave, is an exquisite conversation with journalist Sen O'Hagan about grief and loss. It is in the form of an electric conversation.
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He has entered yet another transfigured era, co-created an exquisite book called Faith, Hope and Carnage, and become a frank and eloquent interlocutor on grief.
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