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Nick Cave — Loss, Yearning, Transcendence
On Being with Krista Tippett - November 22, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsHere are some experiences to which Nick Cave gives voice and song: the "universal condition" of yearning, and of loss; a "spirituality of rigor"; and the transcendent and moral dimensions of what music is about. This Australian musician, writer, and actor first made a name in the wild world of ’...
A Word from Krista
On Being with Krista Tippett - November 21, 2023 19:15 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsA little musing on this season, the spectacular finale headed your way — and ways to stay connected in the time ahead. Subscribe to the The Pause Find our Starting Points Peruse our Libraries And on YouTube, grab a Poem to Carry in Your Pocket
Sara Hendren — Our Bodies, Aliveness, and the Built World
On Being with Krista Tippett - November 16, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsOur built world is designed around something called "normal," and yet every single one of our bodies is mysterious, and constantly adapting for better or worse — and always, always changing. This is a fact so ordinary — and yet not something most of us routinely pause to know and to ponder and w...
2023 11-15 Curate Your Social Media Feed
GenXTalkin - On Being Prepared - November 15, 2023 19:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings5 tips to curate your online social media feed did you know that 80% of the content in social media today is made by less than 10 percent of users? But also, did you know that only 10% of users actually interact with content? Which means, if you think about the actual content that’s “blowing u...
Christiana Figueres — Ecological Hope, and Spiritual Evolution
On Being with Krista Tippett - November 09, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsThe ecological crisis we are standing before is at once civilizational and personal — intimately close to each of us in the places we love and inhabit, and unfolding at a species level. And as much as anyone alive on the planet now, Christiana Figueres has felt the overwhelm of this and stepped ...
2023-11-04 90 Seconds to Save Your Life
GenXTalkin - On Being Prepared - November 04, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDo you ever wonder what the flight attendant thinks of all those passengers as they’re boarding? Are you one of the 30-40 percent of the population with some form of aerophobia, or fear of flying? Do you believe that if a plane goes down, everybody onboard dies? Well then this is the show for...
Clint Smith — What We Know in the "Marrow of Our Bones"
On Being with Krista Tippett - November 02, 2023 18:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsThis phrase recurs throughout Clint Smith's writing: "in the marrow of our bones." It is an example of how words can hold encrypted wisdom — in this case, the reality that memory and emotion lodge in us physically. Words and phrases have carried this truth forward in time long before we had the ...
“Dance Party” by Clint Smith
On Being with Krista Tippett - November 02, 2023 18:10 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsClint Smith reads his poem, “Dance Party.” This poem is featured in Clint’s On Being conversation with Krista, “What We Know in the ‘Marrow of Our Bones.’” Find more of his poems, along with our full collection of poetry films and readings from two decades of the show, at Experience Poetry. Cli...
“Ode to Those First Fifteen Minutes After the Kids Are Finally Asleep” by Clint Smith
On Being with Krista Tippett - November 02, 2023 18:05 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsClint Smith reads his poem, “Ode to Those First Fifteen Minutes After the Kids Are Finally Asleep.” This poem is featured in Clint’s On Being conversation with Krista, “What We Know in the ‘Marrow of Our Bones.’” Find more of his poems, along with our full collection of poetry films and readings...
[Extended] Clint Smith with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett - November 02, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsThis phrase recurs throughout Clint Smith's writing: "in the marrow of our bones." It is an example of how words can hold encrypted wisdom — in this case, the reality that memory and emotion lodge in us physically. Words and phrases have carried this truth forward in time long before we had the ...
Three Skills for Staying Calm, Sane, and Open in a Chaotic World | Krista interviewed by Dan Harris for Ten Percent Happier
On Being with Krista Tippett - October 31, 2023 20:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsFrom Krista: I loved being interviewed by Dan Harris as much as I've ever enjoyed being on the other side of the microphone (as the saying goes). He drew things out of me I didn't know I had to say. And I'm so impressed with him as a human being, and what he's created with Ten Percent Happier. I...
Latanya Sweeney — On Shaping Technology to Human Purpose
On Being with Krista Tippett - October 26, 2023 18:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsYou may not know Latanya Sweeney's name, but as much as any other single person — and with good humor and grace as well as brilliance — she has led on the frontier of our gradual understanding of how far from anonymous you and I are in almost any database we inhabit, and how far from neutral all...
[Unedited] Latanya Sweeney with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett - October 26, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsYou may not know Latanya Sweeney's name, but as much as any other single person — and with good humor and grace as well as brilliance — she has led on the frontier of our gradual understanding of how far from anonymous you and I are in almost any database we inhabit, and how far from neutral all...
Matthew Sanford – The Body's Grace
On Being with Krista Tippett - October 19, 2023 18:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsA wondrous, buried treasure from the 20-year On Being archive, with renowned yoga teacher Matthew Sanford. Be prepared, as you listen to what follows, to take in subtleties and gracefulness you've never before pondered — or tried to feel in yourself — in the interplay between your mind and your ...
2023- 1001 Collective Illusion
GenXTalkin - On Being Prepared - October 14, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMore from GenXTalkin https://neon.page/genxtalkin Support the Show: Readywise Referral: https://www.readywiseoutdoor.com/?rstr=genxtalkin Collective illusions — false assumptions about society that many people share — have existed for thousands of years in many different ways. Today, because o...
Baratunde Thurston — How to Be a Social Creative
On Being with Krista Tippett - October 12, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsBaratunde Thurston is a comedian, writer, and media entrepreneur. He has eyes open to the contradictions, strangeness, and beauty of being human. He looks for learning happening even amidst our hardest cultural tangles. And he intertwines all of this, innovatively and searchingly, with his lifel...
Reid Hoffman — AI, and What It Means to Be (More) Human
On Being with Krista Tippett - October 05, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsIn this season of On Being and those to come, we are going to train the core human questions on the emerging “generative AI.” Beyond the hype and the doom, what is this new technology calling us to as human beings? What is our agency to shape it to human purpose, and how might it bring us — lite...
Kerry Washington — Acting as a Devotional Practice
On Being with Krista Tippett - September 28, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings“Becoming other people” for a living, as Kerry Washington likes to describe her craft, turns out to be a revelatory lens on the high drama that is the human condition. As a “learning actor,” a kind of actor/anthropologist, she has brought elegance and moral rigor to all kinds of roles: as the ub...
Kate Bowler — On Being in a Body
On Being with Krista Tippett - September 21, 2023 18:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsWe love the theologian Kate Bowler's allergy to every platitude and her wisdom and wit about the strange and messy fullness of what it means to be in a human body. She's best known for her 2018 book Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) — a poetic and powerful reflection on...
Kate Bowler — A Blessing for the Life You Didn't Choose
On Being with Krista Tippett - September 21, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsThis blessing is featured in Kate’s conversation with Krista, “On Being in a Body.” It's published in her book The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days. Kate Bowler's beloved books include Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved) and most recently, The Li...
A New Season of On Being Is Coming
On Being with Krista Tippett - September 14, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsA big conversation to live by starting NEXT WEEK — every Thursday — from September 21. Loss — and love. AI — and the intelligence that lives in our bodies. Kerry Washington, Kate Bowler, Reid Hoffman, Latanya Sweeney, Nick Cave, Baratunde Thurston … and more. Subscribe, tell your friends, a...
"Love is still the only revenge. It grows each time the earth is set on fire."
On Being with Krista Tippett - July 21, 2023 18:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsFrom Krista: I have been texting this exquisite poem from our archives to my beloveds. Perhaps it will touch you — hold you — as it is touching and holding me. ON ANOTHER PANEL ABOUT CLIMATE, THEY ASK ME TO SELL THE FUTURE AND ALL I'VE GOT IS A LOVE POEM To call the young Pakistani-American po...
From Poetry Unbound: Benjamin Gucciardi — The Rungs
On Being with Krista Tippett - June 08, 2023 18:39 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsHello friends, it is a joy to introduce the new season of Poetry Unbound, which is underway. As Krista shares at the top, this episode has everything in it that makes Poetry Unbound such a gift in a noisy podcast world. If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to Poetry Unbound for new episodes eve...
Patronage and Love: On Being's Becoming
On Being with Krista Tippett - April 20, 2023 19:40 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsPádraig makes an announcement, and we listen to a few lovely moments from the On Being season we've just brought into the world. We're inviting the beautiful humans who gather around On Being to partner in the vitality of the unfolding On Being Project in a new way. Our friend Maria Popova s...
Vivek Murthy — To Be a Healer
On Being with Krista Tippett - April 13, 2023 18:10 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsWe need a modicum of vitality to simply be alive in this time. And we're in an enduringly tender place. The mental health crisis that is invoked all around, especially as we look to the young, is one manifestation of the gravity of the post-2020 world. How to name and honor this more openly? How...
Vivek Murthy — A Meditation for Moments of Despair, and To Feel Less Alone
On Being with Krista Tippett - April 13, 2023 18:05 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsAn excerpt from the On Being episode, "To Be a Healer." The extraordinary physician and public servant stilled a raucous room full of storytellers and podcasters with this offering at the 2023 On Air Fest. Vivek Murthy is the 21st Surgeon General of the United States. He also served in this rol...
[Unedited] Vivek Murthy with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett - April 13, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsWe need a modicum of vitality to simply be alive in this time. And we're in an enduringly tender place. The mental health crisis that is invoked all around, especially as we look to the young, is one manifestation of the gravity of the post-2020 world. How to name and honor this more openly? How...
Barbara Brown Taylor — “This Hunger for Holiness”
On Being with Krista Tippett - April 06, 2023 18:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings"I like it much better than ‘religious’ or ‘spiritual’ — to be a seeker after the sacred or the holy, which ends up for me being the really real." – Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor From Krista, about this week's show: It's fascinating to trace the arc of spiritual searching and religious belonging ...
[Unedited] Barbara Brown Taylor with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett - April 06, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings"I like it much better than ‘religious’ or ‘spiritual’ — to be a seeker after the sacred or the holy, which ends up for me being the really real." – Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor From Krista, about this week's show: It's fascinating to trace the arc of spiritual searching and religious belonging ...
Ruth Wilson Gilmore — “Where life is precious, life is precious.”
On Being with Krista Tippett - March 30, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsTo say that Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a geographer, which she is, is not to convey the vast and varied ways in which she is influencing the makings of the future. She's a mentor and teacher to a new generation of social activism and creativity. She's a visionary of “abolition,” and that has become ...
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