On Being with Krista Tippett

Leonard Mlodinow's books include The Upright Thinkers, The Human Journey from Living and Trees to Understanding the Cosmos, and Fineman's Rainbow, a search for beauty in physics and in life about his friendship and study with the pioneering 20th Century physicist Richard Fineman.

Leonard Mlodinow's books include The Upright Thinkers, The Human Journey from Living and Trees to Understanding the Cosmos, and Fineman's Rainbow, a search for beauty in physics and in life about his friendship and study with the pioneering 20th Century physicist Richard Fineman.

And I did not know what to do from that moment on.

So I started by writing my first book and it is The Pilgrimage.

But in fact, the people read and people under took this pilgrimage.

And so I started by writing my first book and it is The Pilgrimage.

the first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word. So the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.

He who can no longer listen to his brother will soon be no longer listening to God either. This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life.

the first service that one owes to others in the fellowship can sit and listening to them. Just as love to God, love of God begins with listening to His word. So the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His word, but also lends us His ear. He says Christians, especially ministers, so often they must think they must always contribute something when they, they must always contribute something when they're in the company of others that this is the one service they have to render. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking. Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. He who can no longer listen to His brother will soon be no longer listening to God either. This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life.

It's kind of a long section but and Bonhoeffer thought so hard and deeply about you know this was the book Life Together about Christian community about human community. So he says the first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word. So the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that he not only gives us his word but also lends us his ear. He says Christians especially ministers so often think that they must always contribute something when they're in the company of others that this is the one service they have to render. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking. Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. He who can no longer listen to his brother will soon be no longer listening to God either. This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life.

the first service that one owes to others in the fellowship can sit and listening to them. Just as love to God, love of God begins with listening to His word. So the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His word, but also lends us His ear.

Christians, especially ministers, so often they must think they must always contribute something when they, they must always contribute something when they're in the company of others that this is the one service they have to render. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking. Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. He who can no longer listen to His brother will soon be no longer listening to God either. This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life.

I mean, he wrote this book Art and Physics, which looked at the parallel visions in these two worlds and how artists and scientists are often talking about the same ideas but ones with images and ones with equations.

I mean, he wrote this book Art and Physics, which looked at the parallel visions in these two worlds and how artists and scientists are often talking about the same ideas but ones with images and ones with equations.

I mean, he wrote this book Art and Physics, which looked at the parallel visions in these two worlds and how artists and scientists are often talking about the same ideas but ones with images and ones with equations.

I mean, he wrote this book Art and Physics, which looked at the parallel visions in these two worlds and how artists and scientists are often talking about the same ideas but ones with images and ones with equations.

I was doing this film about called Brain Power which looked at the best way to nurture a child's brain and when I found out that fact.

I was doing this film about called Brain Power, which looked at the best way to nurture a child's brain. And birth to five is the biggest growth period of a child's brain. And we were trying to show how incredibly important it is to support a brain in that those years.

some with accompanying books including the science of character, brain power from neurons to networks, and the feature length documentary connected and autoblogography about love, death and technology.

I was doing this film about called Brain Power which looked at the best way to nurture a child's brain and when I found out that fact.

I was doing this film about called Brain Power, which looked at the best way to nurture a child's brain. And birth to five is the biggest growth period of a child's brain.

around the time I was 17 or 18 this funny thing happened in the midst of this very interesting upbringing that I found myself drawn into the Catholic Church.

one almost gone after noon in November as I stepped out into what sun remained in the day approved for the existence of God to hold of me.

reason alone one way or another eventually turns into reasoning together it sees the light of day it meets its own history it strikes up a conversation and is never the same afterward.

One almost gone afternoon in November as I stepped out into what sun remained in the day, a proof for the existence of God took hold of me.

I tried to avoid explaining what that experience was because I have no idea still.

the way I'd been framing the question, the way the question was being framed around me was not the only way to do it and maybe wasn't the best way. Or maybe even the most interesting way.

as the business of reading technology continues along as trajectory, whether apocalyptic or utopian are both, perhaps those of us who continue to fancy ourselves concerned readers, however much we give into the new and shiny, might turn our attention and new to what one might call inner work.

one almost gone after noon in November as I stepped out into what sun remained in the day approved for the existence of God to hold of me.

reason alone one way or another eventually turns into reasoning together it sees the light of day it meets its own history it strikes up a conversation and is never the same afterward.

God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet

So book one is God in Proof, the story of a search from the ancients to the internet. And book two is Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse.

when young people in this secular social political movement started turning their attention to churches and sometimes actually for instance protesting in front of churches it wasn't that they were protesting that this was a church or the the things that a church would claim to believe what they were actually saying was church act like a church

The email just said Occupy Wall Street bring tent what is our one demand September 17th.

real democracy now

Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse

So book one is God in Proof, the story of a search from the ancients to the internet. And book two is Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse.

You know, the first time you've published a collection of poetry. I really love these lines from this poem. Why we are here? Maybe this is why we are here to rub shoulders and play cards, to be a place to launch and a place to land, to murmur in the phone, late at night, and to say, this I love and this I saw.

Three gratitudes. Now and it's a wonderful poem but I also just find this idea so useful. I want to start doing this myself and it is how it starts. Every night before I go to sleep, I say out loud. Three things that I am grateful for.

Every night before I go to sleep, I say out loud three things that I'm grateful for. All the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It's a small practice in humble and yet I find I sleep better holding what lightens and softens my life.

I think that love for people, that love for our stories. It's been very motivating for me.

I think there's a longing out there for that kind of acknowledgement. That our lives, our daily lives, are... They're wondrous and they're valuable and they're honorable.

There's one of your poems in this collection of poetry, which I think is your first... You know, the first time you've published a collection of poetry.

Maybe this is why we are here to rub shoulders and play cards, to be a place to launch and a place to land, to murmur in the phone, late at night, and to say, this I love and this I saw.

Every night before I go to sleep, I say out loud three things that I'm grateful for. All the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life.

There was a book by Gene Shenotable and called Close to the Bone life threatening illness and the search for meaning that I found just enormously helpful but that was.

There was a book by Jean Shenotable and called Close to the Bone, Life Threatany illness and the search for meaning that I found just enormously helpful

We're not writing a book called The Daniel Plan I wanted to call the Jewish doctors guide for Christian wellness.

I wanted to call the Jewish doctors guide for Christian wellness.

I wanted to call the Jewish doctors guide for Christian wellness.

And they were able to change their culture, change their behavior, they did it together, they supported each other.

And they were very sick, very overweight. The average weight was 210 from men in 170 for women. That was average.

we went up writing a book called The Daniel Plan.

I was just reading this this morning over the time, which I almost thought I could have just read this and have you seen the next American Revolution? The book? Yes, I have. Yeah. Okay.

I was just reading this this morning

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This volume includes poems from her early celebrated the Venus Hotten Tots and successive works, it spans themes from the history of slavery to her personal history of becoming a mother.

The poem she wrote for the 2009 presidential inauguration was published in a collection titled Crave Radiance.

And she's just written a beautiful memoir of grief and love, The Light of the World.

her first memoir a beautiful book about life in and beyond grief called The Light of the World.

And she's just written a beautiful memoir of grief and love, The Light of the World.

her first memoir a beautiful book about life in and beyond grief called The Light of the World.

I really love this picture on the cover of your book. I think you look like a friendly, successful, formidable lawyer. Perhaps in your amazing red dress and your lawyer.

if you read my book, I got this sort of heretical thing and there about ordination.

Sister Simone Campbell is the Executive Director of Network. She's also the author of A Nun on the Bus how all of us can create hope, change, and community.

I really love this picture on the cover of your book. I think you look like a friendly, successful, formidable lawyer. Perhaps in your amazing red dress and your lawyer.

If you read my book, I got this sort of heretical thing and there about ordination.

Sister Simone Campbell is the Executive Director of Network. She's also the author of A Nun on the Bus how all of us can create hope, change, and community.

Gerald May in this amazing book Will and Spirit says that the only thing that we bring to the contemplative life is a willing heart. And that the two things that shut down the contemplative life are fear and holding on grasping.

Gerald May in this amazing book Will and Spirit says that the only thing that we bring to the contemplative life. Is a willing heart. And that the two things that shut down the contemplative life are fear and holding on grasping.

Gerald May in this amazing book Will and Spirit says that the only thing that we bring to the contemplative life is a willing heart. And that the two things that shut down the contemplative life are fear and holding on grasping.

Gerald May in this amazing book Will and Spirit says that the only thing that we bring to the contemplative life. Is a willing heart. And that the two things that shut down the contemplative life are fear and holding on grasping.