Story Search: By On Being
Mary Oliver: Instructions for Living a Life
On Being 53,430Mary Oliver was one of the most beloved poets of our times. A writer who was dazzled by her daily experience of ...
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The Last Quiet Place
On Being 43,074Gordon Hempton says that silence is an endangered species. He's an acoustic ecologist -- a collector of sound all ...
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James Doty: the Magic Shop of the Brain
On Being 41,281James Doty is a Stanford brain surgeon and a leading convener of research on compassion. In 1968, he wandered into a ...
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On Play, Spirit & Character
On Being 39,717Psychiatrist Stuart Brown, founder of the National Institute for Play suggests that the rough-and-tumble play of ...
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Alive Enough? Reflecting on Our Technology with Sherry Turkle
On Being 37,203"Sherry Turkle founded and directs the intriguingly titled MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She made waves ...
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Brene Brown on Shame & the Courage to Be Vulnerable
On Being 37,040Do you remember the last time you felt completely vulnerable? It's a rather uncomfortable feeling that causes most ...
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Ellen Langer: Science of Mindlessness and Mindfulness
On Being 36,740Ellen Langer, a psychology professor at Harvard, defines mindfulness as the simple act of actively noticing things, ...
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Mary Oliver: Listening to the World
On Being 36,261"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild ...
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Atul Gawande: What Matters in the End
On Being 35,644Atul Gawande practices general and endocrine surgery in Boston, is a professor at Harvard Medical School, a writer ...
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The Body's Grace
On Being 35,268"Matthew Sanford says he's never seen anyone live more deeply in their body -- in all its grace and all its flaws ...
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The Far Shore of Aging
On Being 30,378As life-prolonging technologies continue to lengthen our stay on earth, we still are learning how to confront the ...
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On Randomness & Choice
On Being 29,651"When you look at your life...if you think about all the details of what happened to you, you will find that there ...
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The Calling of Delight: on Gangs, Service & Kinship
On Being 29,073Father Gregory Boyle is no ordinary priest --he exuberantly pushes boundaries; not only does he reframe the meaning ...
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Reframing Our Relationship to That We Don't Control
On Being 28,535A palliative care physician, Dr. B.J. Miller brings design sensibility to the art of living until we die. He learned ...
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The Science of Attention
On Being 28,453Neuroscientist Adele Diamond is challenging basic assumptions about education. Her focus on the brain's capacity for ...
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On Exoplanets and Love
On Being 28,329"Natalie Batalha hunts for "exoplanets" -- Earth-sized planets beyond our own solar system -- that might have liquid ...
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A Midwife to the Dying
On Being 27,178"In having been in the field of dying for many years, I have frequently encountered the tragic limitations of dying ...
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Anatomy of Gratitude
On Being 23,334Brother David Steindl-Rast, Benedictine monk, teacher and author, speaks with Krista Tippett about gratitude -- a ...
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The Science of Mindlessness & Mindfulness
On Being 22,838"Her unconventional studies have long suggested what neuroscience is now revealing: Our experiences are formed by ...
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Choosing Curiosity Over Fear
On Being 22,782Her name is synonymous with her fantastically best-selling memoir Eat Pray Love. But through the disorienting ...
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Notice the Rage. Notice the Silence.
On Being 21,805The best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near where we want to go. Therapist and trauma ...
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Jonathan Haidt: the Psychology of Self-Righteousness
On Being 21,437"When it comes to moral judgments, we think we are scientists discovering the truth, but actually we are lawyers ...
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The Inner Life of Rebellion
On Being 20,473The history of rebellion is rife with burnout, which Parker Palmer has defined as "violating my own nature in the ...
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The Intelligence in All Kinds of Life
On Being 20,298"Why is the world so beautiful?" This is a question Robin Wall Kimmerer pursues as a botanist and also as a member ...
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Catching Song: on Being with Bobby Mcferrin
On Being 19,929"I want everyone to experience at the end of my concert...this sense of rejoicing. I don't want them to be blown ...
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Resilience After Unimaginable Loss
On Being 19,547Sheryl Sandberg is synonymous with Facebook and Silicon Valley success, and she's the voice of Lean In. She joins On ...
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Joan Halifax: Buoyancy Rather Than Burnout in Our Lives
On Being 18,933It's easy to despair at all the bad news and horrific pictures that come at us daily. But Zen teacher and medical ...
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The Difference Between Fixing and Healing
On Being 17,437Encounter the mystery of life and living with Krista Tippet and Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, wise physician, author and ...
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Belonging Creates and Undoes Us Both
On Being 17,332Padraig O Tuama is a poet, theologian, and extraordinary healer in our world of fracture. He leads the Corrymeela ...
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The Soul in Depression
On Being 15,938We're fluent in the languages of psychology and medication, but the word "depression" does not do justice to this ...
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Our Nervous Systems in the Time of Covid
On Being 15,568"The light at the end of the COVID tunnel is tenuously appearing yet many of us feel as exhausted as at any time in ...
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The Mystery & Art of Living
On Being 15,466Krista Tippett is best known as the host of "On Being," the award-winning public radio conversation, podcast, and ...
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Why Is the World So Beautiful?
On Being 14,770Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek considers whether the deepest realities of the world embody beautiful ideas. He notes, ...
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Esther Perel: the Constant Dance Between Me and You
On Being 14,642"We all come into this world with a need for connection and protection and with a need for freedom. And from the ...
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Rebecca Solnit: Falling Together
On Being 13,250Rebecca Solnit, author and contributing editor of Harper's, seeks "to describe nuances and shades of meaning, to ...
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Growing up the Internet
On Being 13,221Internet pioneer and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain thinks of the internet as our global brain. Founder of the Webby ...
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The Daily Opportunity in Randomness
On Being 13,104"The physicist Leonard Mlodinow changes how we think about the agency we have in shaping our own destinies. As a ...
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What Borders Are Really About
On Being 12,517"The wonderful writer Luis Alberto Urrea says that a deep truth of our time is that we miss each other. We have this ...
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How Newness Enters the World
On Being 12,411"When time becomes history, different dynamics come into focus than the ones that are at any moment screaming for ...
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Wangari Maathai: Marching with Trees
On Being 12,406The late Wangari Maathai--biologist, environmentalist, and the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace ...
Read MoreThe Urgency of Slowing Down
On Being 12,185Join Krista Tippett from On Being in this intimate interview with Pico Iyer, author of over a dozen books and ...
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Running as Spiritual Practice
On Being 11,448"For the Summer Olympics, we explore a topic our listeners have called out as a passionate force and a connector ...
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To Be Made Whole
On Being 11,262"Look, we are not unspectacular things.
We've come this far, survived this much.
What would ...
Happiness Is Practice, Not Pleasure
On Being 10,627Put aside your preconceptions of happiness and join Krista Tippett with French born Tibetan monk Matthieu Ricard, ...
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John Lewis: Love in Action
On Being 10,420"Here is an extraordinary conversation with the late congressman John Lewis, taped in Montgomery, Alabama, during a ...
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Towards a Moral Revolution
On Being 10,295"Moral reckonings are being driven to the surface of our life together: What are politics for? What is an economy ...
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The Whisper of the Order of Things
On Being 10,180A philosopher's questioning and a scientist's eye shape Enrique Martnez Celaya's original approach to art and to ...
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How Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
On Being 9,634Today young people are trying to balance the question of "What do I want to do when I grow up?" with the question of ...
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