into organizations that deal with the intersection of money and value. Then we'll have Barbara Sargent from the Kalliopeia Foundation, who has not only been embodying these questions, but also helping dozens of organizations into the inquiry.      To illustrate a bit about my own edge, I'll share a personal story. A few years ago, I was working at a company and was pulled in for my year-end review. My boss, who is part of an investment firm said, "I'd love to reward you for your good performance this year, so what would you like?"      I'm sure a certain kind of answer was expected, but what I asked for was a moment of... posted on Oct 2 2017 (10,714 reads)

night, one night I got on a bus and just left town. I called my parents. I travelled hundreds of miles to another city and a couple weeks later, I talked to my parents and told them I would only come home if they would send me away to boarding school. They agreed, and I spent a year in boarding school. That was a year that really turned my year around because I became a kind of monk of knowledge. I had always read a lot, but for the first time I really disciplined myself and just fell in love with learning. That is the background of my philosophical interests. Although it took me a really long time to actually settle in to being a philosopher in the sense of devoting my life to lea... posted on Dec 28 2019 (6,828 reads)

a sense of place merges with human emotion to form the meaning of home and belonging. In 2013, he became the fifth poet to read at a presidential inauguration — also the youngest and the first immigrant. At Chautauqua, I invited him to speak and read from his books. The wit and the deep thoughtfulness and elegance of Richard Blanco’s poetry and his person captivated the crowd. The most recent — and very resonant — question he’s asked by way of poetry is: how to love a country. [music: “Seven League Boots” by Zoë Keating] Richard Blanco:“We hold these truths to be self-evident… We’re the cure for hatred caused by d... posted on Nov 22 2020 (4,379 reads)

we might be experiencing. Tara and I also discussed her new online course on Meditation and Psychotherapy, and the importance of therapists being trained in the practice of awareness and mindfulness. Here’s my conversation with Tara Brach. Tara, I think of you as the self-acceptance lady, the self-acceptance expert, someone who has really studied this and put a lot of time and energy into cultivating self-acceptance and teaching people about it. And what I’d love to know is, why is this so hard? Why is treating ourselves even reasonably kindly, consistently, the way we would of course treat other people, why is it so hard when it comes to treating ourselv... posted on Jan 5 2021 (5,933 reads)

“Oh, this is when you pack up and you move.” And I even had a pet mouse named Fred, which you would think I would’ve had a more creative name for the mouse, but his name was Fred. [audience laughs] And he had a little cage, I would make sure he was — And he would get bundled up and carried from house to house. So Sundays were a different kind of practice, if you will, a different kind of observation. [laughs] Tippett:And you have said that you fell in love with poetry in high school. Limón:Yeah. Tippett:And poetry is absolutely — this is not something I knew would happen when I started this — but poetry now is at the heart ... posted on Apr 22 2023 (3,164 reads)

I have been trafficked. Rather than doing something, you're coming and asking questions and you're clicking my pictures."That had something, some message for me.I came down crying, and then this another lady who shares my name -- her name is Gita -- she followed me. She knew there was something; I was very hurt. She came and I was just standing downstairs and crying. And she said, 'Don't cry. People like you have come many, many times in our lives." And she made me question the whole term 'love'.After that, even today, I'm figuring out what love is. We are talking about love here, right? Like we use the word love. Love is such a heavy word. If you say, "I love you," what does that mean?... posted on Apr 1 2024 (2,445 reads)

there. So what happens beyond that level of pure consciousness, I can't really speak to. I wish I could. If we are alive, it is not—in my opinion—appropriate to ever say that we died because we didn't die. We're still connected. As long as we're still connected, the experience will be of, somehow, experiential in the relationship to the tissue that makes up our body. I will say that I evaporated—if you will—into a flow of energy that was peaceful love. Pure love. The feeling of love. I'm hoping that—when I do have that final disconnect and the thread of me finally is no longer tethered at all to this form—that it is that evapor... posted on Aug 24 2014 (35,455 reads)

lineage, as well. MS. SHLAIN: Yeah. I think a lot of my — the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. He wrote this 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 one’s with images, and one’s with equations. And then ended up — actually, the way I met my husband, who is an artist and a scientist, is he went to hear my dad speak, and we fell in love that night. And a lot of our — we collaborate on a lot of stuff, projects, together, and exploring art and science is a strong connection. And then my mother, when I was growing up, was get... posted on Apr 11 2016 (10,149 reads)

always says, "If you're going to march for civil rights, for justice, and you're going to be arrested, always be arrested with two or three hundred of your closest friends." Then they put you into “pretend Jjail” and you're allowed to bring guitars. Martin Luther King was there, talking. It just became another sermon or rally.      I've been privileged to meet, in an almost Forrest Gumpian way, some of the greatest teachers of kindness and love and benevolence and altruism and compassion: Martin Luther King, Wavy Gravy, Neem Karoli Baba, the Karmapa, Lama Govinda, the Dalai Lama—any number of crazy wonderful Jesuit priests, Sufis,... posted on Nov 8 2017 (15,414 reads)

the rest of your life, straddling a border like that in your person, from the very beginning of your life? MR. URREA: A couple of things: I was — I don’t know why, but I’ve always been God-crazy. I have been drawn toward whatever the cosmic mysteries are, from boyhood on, to my father’s chagrin. Even though he was Mexican, he was not pro-clerical in any way, [laughs] and he didn’t like church, and he didn’t like religion. I don’t know why I loved the concept of God so much; perhaps that I, even then, needed some kind of transcendence, some kind of hope because things were a bit rough. And honestly, back in those days — I’ll r... posted on Jul 15 2018 (8,956 reads)

I couldn’t even remember what Evie’s new diagnosis was called—let alone how to spell it. I was so confused, and didn’t know what questions to ask. Then after a while I thought, I don’t think this is how it has to be. So tell me what you saw when you looked at Evie. Who was the little human you saw staring back?    Evie was the embodiment of her name. Her full name is Evie Amore, and to us that means “life is possible because of love.” Evie showed us a completely different kind of love. Hers was a love without words. When I walked in to see her each morning, she’d see me and flap her arms and legs about in co... posted on Aug 27 2018 (8,802 reads)

Simon: Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True. My name is Tami Simon. I’m the founder of Sounds True, and I’d love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation. The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available. We want everyone to have access to transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion regardless of financial, social or physical challenges. The Sounds True Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans,... posted on Nov 2 2021 (3,228 reads)

follows is the syndicated transcript of an Insights at the Edge interview from Sounds True, between Tami Simon and Michael Singer. You can listen to the audio version here. Tami Simon: Welcome to Insights at the Edge produced by Sounds True. My name’s Tami Simon, I’m the founder of Sounds True and I’d love to take a moment to introduce you to the Sounds True Foundation. The goal of the Sounds True Foundation is to provide access and eliminate financial barriers to transformational education and resources such as teachings and trainings on mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion. If you’d like to learn more and join with us in ... posted on Feb 3 2023 (5,674 reads)

have to have either one. Intraconnected, in a way, tells you you’re inner, you’re inner and there’s a wholeness to it all. So you don’t have to choose. You can integrate, meaning you differentiate the inner and the inter and even the wholeness of it all, and it’s all important, but they’re distinct and you can bring them together. TS: Tell me more about linkage. In the book, you talk about linkage as an expression, we could say, or a form of love. So how does linkage integrate all of these distinctions and act as an activity of love? DS: Yes, exactly. I mean the parenthetic, brief story about linkage being love, and this won&r... posted on Mar 10 2023 (2,308 reads)

that I was being told the truth about the way things really were. And instead, I think I often found caricatures or warnings about the way things were. Especially as a young person, a lot of people lobbying for my soul, both denominationally and theologically. So it took me until my middle year of seminary to walk into a church in downtown New Haven and feel like I was home. Though now when I look back on it, it was like Hogwarts. I mean, I can’t believe that’s what I fell in love with, but I did. Tippett:You mean that church, that high Episcopal Church? Taylor:Yeah. Very high. I think no women even in the choir. Tippett:Yeah. Lots of — what do they say? &ld... posted on Aug 26 2023 (4,231 reads)

planets beyond our own solar system — that might have liquid water and harbor life. She works with the Kepler Mission at NASA, searching among millions of stars that emit "compelling signals" in the range of Kepler's space telescope. For her, it's only a matter of time — a when, not an if — that we discover planets where we know life exists. And, I've never met anyone who speaks more intriguingly than Natalie Batalha about the connection between science, love, and gratitude for life. She is a luminous voice for the way exploring the heavens — as we do that now — is bringing the beauty of the cosmos and the exuberance of scientific discover... posted on Jan 29 2014 (26,403 reads)

change. We talked about the magnetic call of virtue, and how hope is a virtue that is not to be confused with optimism, and how Krista engages the muscular quality of hope on a daily basis. We talked about Krista's discovery of yoga at an important time in her life, and finally, how science and spirituality come together for her as faith in the unfolding mystery. Here's my conversation with someone who is so gifted herself at the art of conversation, Krista Tippett: Krista, I'd love to start by speaking a little bit, interviewer to interviewer, if that's OK. Krista Tippett: [Laughs.] Yes. TS: To begin with, I know you teach a class and it has to do with t... posted on Dec 31 2016 (13,077 reads)

the place where I really sense you found your calling, you understood what was meaningful for you, when you went back to France and you encountered men in an asylum. And somehow, you were seized by that and that has kind of mapped out the direction of your life. MR. VANIER: Yes, I come back to the reality of pleasure and to the reality of what is my deepest desire and what is your deepest desire? And what — and somewhere, the deepest desire for us all is to be appreciated, to be loved, to be seen as somebody of value. But not just seen — and Aristotle makes a difference between being admired and being loved. When you admire people, you put them on pedestals. When you lo... posted on Feb 23 2018 (12,321 reads)

death. At its heart is a resplendent six-bedroom Victorian guesthouse providing 24-hour care for people in their final days. Residents and their families are immersed in an environment that awakens their senses, rather than one that numbs them by way of fluorescent-lit corridors and tired, overworked clinicians. Here, sunlight pours through the windows, art adorns the walls, soups made of locally sourced produce simmer away in the kitchen and volunteer caregivers share warmth and gestures of love. It’s a place that invites attention through beauty and the aesthetic world, where people can live fully right up until the end. BJ was 19 when he had his own intimate encounter with dea... posted on Oct 29 2018 (12,502 reads)

follows is the edited transcript of Chelan Harkin's Awakin Call Mark Peters:  So it’s now my honor to introduce Chelan. Chelan has been channeling ecstatic poetry for more than a decade now and has published two popular collections of her work, Susceptible to Light and Let Us Dance: The Stumble and Whirl with the Beloved, both of which were released in 2021. Her books aim to remind readers of their inherent joy, to support modes of relating to life that open the heart, and to deconstruct anything about God that doesn’t feel intimate, authentic, and warm. Her publishing journey has been supported by mystical connections and prayer experim... posted on Apr 1 2023 (4,294 reads)