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Listen daily until you move on to the next Wisdom Practice.
Journal with the ideas, the questions, and invitations raised. Pay attention to how these things surface in your thoughts, in your body, and in interactions and experiences as you move through your days.
Use the Question to Live and Integration Step as further prompts for practicing, and for journaling.
You’re building spiritual and moral muscle memory.
Listen daily until you move on to the next Wisdom Practice.
Journal with the ideas, the questions, and invitations raised. Pay attention to how these things surface in your thoughts, in your body, and in interactions and experiences as you move through your days.
Use the Question to Live and Integration Step as further prompts for practicing, and for journaling.
You’re building spiritual and moral muscle memory.
Listen daily until you move on to the next Wisdom Practice.
Journal with the ideas, the questions, and invitations raised. Pay attention to how these things surface in your thoughts, in your body, and in interactions and experiences as you move through your days.
Use the Question to Live and Integration Step as further prompts for practicing, and for journaling.
You’re building spiritual and moral muscle memory.
Listen daily until you move on to the next Wisdom Practice.
Journal with the ideas, the questions, and invitations raised. Pay attention to how these things surface in your thoughts, in your body, and in interactions and experiences as you move through your days.
Use the Question to Live and Integration Step as further prompts for practicing, and for journaling.
You’re building spiritual and moral muscle memory.
Listen daily until you move on to the next Wisdom Practice.
Journal with the ideas, the questions, and invitations raised. Pay attention to how these things surface in your thoughts, in your body, and in interactions and experiences as you move through your days.
Use the Question to Live and Integration Step as further prompts for practicing, and for journaling.
You’re building spiritual and moral muscle memory.
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June 21, 2023
An excerpt from the in-depth On Being conversation between Rev. angel and Krista.
angel Kyodo williams is a Zen priest, activist, and teacher. She’s the author of Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace and Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation. In 2020, she created the first annual Great Radical Race Read.
Find the whole produced show — and learn more about her work and writing — here.
An excerpt from the in-depth On Being conversation between Devendra and Krista about Pema Chödrön’s book When Things Fall Apart.
Devendra Banhart is a visual artist, musician, songwriter, and poet. His albums include Ma, Mala, What Will We Be, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, and Cripple Crow, among others. His book of poetry is Weeping Gang Bliss Void Yab-Yum.
Listen to the whole produced show — and learn more about Devendra’s music and work — here.
An excerpt from the in-depth On Being conversation between Ross Gay and Krista Tippett.
Ross Gay is a professor of English at Indiana University. His books include the poetry collection, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, and a book of essays, The Book of Delights. He co-founded The Tenderness Project together with Shayla Lawson.
Listen to the whole produced show here.
An excerpt from the in-depth conversation between Bryan and Krista.
Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, and Aronson Family Professor of Criminal Justice at New York University School of Law. He is the author of The New York Times bestseller Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.
Listen to the whole produced On Being show — and learn more about Bryan, his work, and his writing — here.
episode
June 21, 2023
Listen to Krista’s entire On Being conversation with Maria Popova here.
This Delve is an excerpt from Krista’s On Being conversation with Maria together with Natalie Batalha. Find the whole produced show — and learn more about each of their work and writing — here.
Maria Popova is the creator and presence behind Brain Pickings, which is included in the Library of Congress’s permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials. She is the author of Figuring and hosts “The Universe in Verse,” an annual celebration of science through poetry, at the interdisciplinary cultural institute Pioneer Works, in Brooklyn.
Natalie Batalha is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She served as the project scientist for NASA’s Kepler mission from 2011 to 2017.
episode
June 21, 2023
An excerpt from the in-depth On Being conversation between Naomi and Krista.
Naomi Shihab Nye is the Young People’s Poet Laureate through the Poetry Foundation and a professor of creative writing at Texas State University. Her recent books include The Tiny Journalist, Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners, Cast Away, and Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems. She received the 2019 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle.
Find the whole produced show — and learn more about Naomi’s work and writing — here.
An excerpt from the in-depth On Being conversation between Ocean and Krista.
Ocean Vuong is an assistant professor of English in the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of the poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whiting Award; and a novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. He was a 2019 MacArthur Fellow.
Listen to the whole produced show — and learn more about Ocean’s work and writing — here.
“Enough of us see that we have a world to remake. We want to meet what is hard and hurting. We want to rise to what is beautiful and life-giving. We want to do that where we live, and we want to do it walking alongside others. We’re asking, where to begin.”
| Question to Live
What brings you here? |
Integration Step
Imagine the Possibility of WholenessSet an intention, a day and time when you will embark on the first course, Finding Replenishment. |
| Heart of the Matter
This app and its courses are an offering of companionship and strategies towards wisdom and wholeness inside ourselves and in life together — wholeness even as the world engages a story of fracture. We can walk forward in ways that are at once contemplative and pragmatic. We can seek balance and equanimity even as the ground beneath our feet continues to shift. Courses carry you through a 6-7 week experience, a mini-retreat and learning adventure that is applied in the laboratory of life. Krista Tippett guides the entire experience, bringing in the voices and teachings of wise and graceful lives she has engaged in conversation over the past two decades, with insights from spiritual wisdom to science, from poetry to social transformation. Weekly Wisdom practice (10-15 minutes) anchors each course. Pause ritual (2-4 minutes) contemplatively integrates wisdom practice across everyday interactions, building spiritual and moral muscle memory. A supported practice of journaling is built into each offering, with questions to live and integration steps alongside course content. Weekly in-depth episodes of the celebrated On Being podcast offer other opportunities for delving deeper with teachers or ideas, in a calm, dedicated space. |
“Beneath the hard skills and firm strategic priorities needed to resolve our greatest challenges lies the soft, fertile ground of our shared humanity. In that place of hard and soft is sustenance enough to nourish the entire human family.”
| Question to Live
Who has accompanied me in rising to my best self? |
| Integration Step
“Like flowers breaking through granite, I’m going to choose hope every time.” |
| Heart of the Matter
The invitation here is two-fold. First, to flex the moral imagination of your hope muscle. The questions we instinctively ask of “what to do?” in western culture are questions of what and when and how much. Those are the serious hard questions we value and act on. Moral imagination calls us to ask why, and to what human purpose? And also, how much is enough? And the other calling here, the other invitation, is to get accompanied. Find others to walk alongside. Find others to walk alongside you. You don’t have to ask those questions alone or answer them alone or live them alone. In fact, if we try to do this transformation alone, it simply will not work. As Jacqueline says, these new ways of being, this new sensibility, has to be embedded within the structures themselves. This is a real shift, but taking it in really, truly, is a relief. Something can be created where people can remain whole and can grow and face what goes wrong, as well as what goes right, but not be alone and not be depleted. Or, certainly, be depleted at times, but have that well of friendship and support and being surrounded that means that there will be replenishment all along the way. |
“We are dealing with so much bad news, horrible news. And there is also so much beauty happening in the world right now and so many people who have shown up. … We have been living in a time of such scarcity and austerity and zero-sum. This is not what we were meant for as human beings.”
| Question to LiveWhat is causing me to despair right now, and where am I finding hope? |
| Integration Step
What would you have to give up or soften in what feels habitual right now, to cultivate a “yes, and …” orientation? Ponder that. Practice what you discern. |
| Heart of the Matter
“We are dealing with so much bad news, horrible news. And there is also so much beauty happening in the world right now and so many people who have shown up. … We have been living in a time of such scarcity and austerity and zero-sum. This is not what we were meant for as human beings.” |
“We somehow always find new mysteries.”
| Question to Live
Does Mario Livio’s wonder create spaciousness in my sense of the possible? |
| Integration Step
Take in the mystery and majesty of being alive now — cosmically speaking, scientifically seen — and feel how this can power a reality-based, worldly hope. |
| Heart of the Matter
It is so fascinating to think about what Mario Livio points out — that even as everything we’re discovering puts us into perspective, makes us smaller and smaller in the grand scheme of things, we are central to it all. Our minds become more important, because our minds expand even as science expands, whether we know it or not. The invitation here is to let in a sense of the cosmic mystery and wonder of being alive right now and see how that transforms our sense of our very ordinary selves, how much space this realization opens up for imagination and possibility, and again, real transformation, not mere change. |
“The way in which people live their lives and commit themselves — how they believe, what they engage in — those things are critical in shaping the human niche. … Those are evolutionarily relevant processes.”
| Question to LiveWhat assumptions about evolution and essential human nature am I walking around with? |
| Integration Step
Become a little less riveted by “critical mass.” Look for “critical yeast” — small groups of unlikely combinations of people in a new quality of relationship. |
| Heart of the Matter
This is such a wonderful and freeing thing to be able to take in every once in a while, as Rebecca Solnit paraphrases Foucault: “We know what we do. We know why we do it. But we don’t know what [what] we do does.” We control our intentions, to some extent. We control our behavior. But we don’t control what that sets off in the world. The other piece of what she’s saying that feels so resonant to me for us now is this notion that the earthquake shakes you awake, and then the question to live — how do you stay awake? Here we are, in a pandemic generation. Everything that we thought we knew for sure, so much of that was upended. We were called to so many questions and to learn edifying and deepening things about ourselves and others and the world. How do we stay faithful to those questions and to that learning? |
“‘Never let anyone be humiliated in your presence’ is a very powerful starting point because it means that you can’t be indifferent. You can’t be a bystander. You are implicated in what happens. And that’s really fundamentally the shift, I think, between being a spectator and being a witness.”
| Question to LiveHow does the notion of hope as a moral choice settle in me? |
| Integration Step
“Never let anyone be humiliated in your presence.” Take that in. Carry it around. As you move through your day, notice when you default to being a spectator or a bystander. Commit to shift in some situation ahead to bearing witness instead. |
| Heart of the Matter
It is intriguing, this conjunction of hope and responsibility, and hope and moral choice, and hope as fuel for the long-term work of social repair. But also by this granular practice that Elie Wiesel taught and that was named here: “Never allow anyone to be humiliated in your presence.” That is an instruction that you can mull over and carry around and practice. And it would shift something. And the context of that invitation is the larger invitation to bear witness — to move from being a spectator or a bystander to being a witness. And of course, that would have external implications, but it is, again, also initially an internal reorientation. There is a narrative of our time, a trajectory of our time, of goodness, of generativity. And this language of “witness,” of this kind of visible, courageous orientation, is a wonderful image and practice to think about how to mobilize that. |
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