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Becoming Wise

Becoming Wise

38 Episodes • By On Being Studios • onbeing.org
The Becoming Wise podcast offers depth and discovery in the time it takes to make a cup of tea. Each episode is curated from hundreds of big conversations with wise and graceful lives. Reset your day. Replenish your sense of yourself and the world. On Being Studios is the producer of On Being, This ...more
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What did you love? What would you like to hear?
Season two of Becoming Wise is a wrap! We’re so grat... more
Jul 15 2019 36 sec
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Releasing Anger as an Act of Self-Compassion | Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman
The last episode of season two. Robert Thurman and S... more
Jul 8 2019 7m
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Healing Through Story | Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of our wisest models ... more
Jul 1 2019 5m
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The Daily Opportunity in Randomness | Leonard Mlodinow
The physicist Leonard Mlodinow changes how we think ... more
Jun 24 2019 7m
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The Inner Life of Social Change | Ruby Sales
Public theologian Ruby Sales opens up what it was li... more
Jun 17 2019 7m
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Empathy Rooted in Action | Terry Tempest Williams
Naturalist Terry Tempest Williams brings meaning and... more
Jun 10 2019 5m
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Who We’re Called to Become | James Martin
Father James Martin is a beloved Jesuit writer and t... more
Jun 3 2019 6m
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Happiness Is Practice, Not Pleasure | Matthieu Ricard
Matthieu Ricard is helping us redefine happiness in ... more
May 27 2019 6m
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A Planetary Sense of Love | Natalie Batalha
Astronomer Natalie Batalha embodies a planetary sens... more
May 20 2019 5m
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Our Lives Can Be Signposts for What's Possible | Vincent Harding
A civil rights elder and speechwriter for Martin Lut... more
May 13 2019 6m
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Art and Justice Work Together | Rami Nashashibi
Rami Nashashibi champions how art can make humans vi... more
May 6 2019 5m
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Nurturing Our Children’s Souls | Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
A rabbi and parent, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso wants us t... more
Apr 29 2019 4m
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The Everyday Gift of Writing | Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye says writing is “an act that helps ... more
Apr 22 2019 6m
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Friendship and the Democratic Process | Kwame Anthony Appiah | Becoming Wise
Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah offers hope for qui... more
Apr 15 2019 5m
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Life Beyond the Mind | Eckhart Tolle
“There is a place inside me that is far more powerfu... more
Apr 8 2019 6m
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We Believe Each Other into Being | Jennifer Michael Hecht
“Imagine yourself alone on this planet. Would anythi... more
Apr 1 2019 4m
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The Pilgrimage of “Who Am I?” | Paulo Coelho
Rediscover the wonder in the mundane and the everyda... more
Mar 25 2019 4m
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Season Two Trailer
A preview of season two, returning on Monday March 2... more
Mar 11 2019 2m
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Einstein Speaks to Us About Race | S. James Gates
“His capability to ask the ‘What if?’ question opene... more
Jul 25 2016 10m
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Trauma and Resilience Land in Our Bodies | Bessel van der Kolk
“Trauma treatment starts at the foundation of a body... more
Jul 25 2016 8m
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Evil, Forgiveness, and Prayer | Elie Wiesel
“When words bring you closer to the prisoner in his ... more
Jul 8 2016 9m
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We Are the Beloved Community | John Lewis
“I discovered that you have to have this sense of fa... more
Jul 5 2016 7m
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The Universe Participates in the Mystery of God | Guy Consolmagno and George Coyne
“If you’re sure about something, you don’t need fait... more
Jun 27 2016 7m
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I Feel, Therefore I Am | Eve Ensler
“How in our daily lives are we connecting with ourse... more
Jun 20 2016 6m
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We Reclaim Abandoned Spaces | Shane Claiborne
“There’s something magnetic about a group of people ... more
Jun 13 2016 9m
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