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This unedited interview with Rabbi Lawrence Kushner comes from our produced show "Lawrence Kushner — Kabbalah and the Inner Life of God." 

The Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah is a rich, magnetic world of thought and teaching. It has resonance with modern understandings of reality — and describes a cosmic significance to the practical moral call to tikkun olam, "repair the world." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner is a long-time student and articulator of the mysteries and messages of Kabbalah. We speak with him in honor of the 20th-century historian Gershom Scholem, who resurrected this tradition from obscurity and made it accessible to modern people.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/lawrence-kushner-kabbalah-and-the-inner-life-of-god/6309

[Unedited] Lawrence Kushner with Krista Tippett

Recorded at the Books at Noon program at The New York Public Library. Details and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/05/19/eve-ensler-nypl/

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Eve Ensler on how trauma makes us disconnect from ourselves

As the daughter of Johnny Cash, singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash describes her life as "circumscribed by music." But, it's through her love of language and quantum mechanics that she's finding new sources of creativity and mathematical ways to think about the divine. The mother of five shares her perspectives on being present, Twitter as a "boot camp for songwriters," and how she wrestles with love and grief through her music.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/rosanne-cash-time-traveler/1048

Rosanne Cash — Working Things out on Stage with Her Father Johnny Cash

As the daughter of Johnny Cash, singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash describes her life as "circumscribed by music." But, it's through her love of language and quantum mechanics that she's finding new sources of creativity and mathematical ways to think about the divine. The mother of five shares her perspectives on being present, Twitter as a "boot camp for songwriters," and how she wrestles with love and grief through her music.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/rosanne-cash-time-traveler/1048

Rosanne Cash — The Story of "God is in the Roses"

Interview by Luisa Cotardo conducted in 1995. Transcript and background: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/11/jeff-buckley-interview/

Recording courtesy of Luisa Cotardo (http://luisacotardo.tumblr.com) for Brain Pickings (http://www.brainpickings.org)

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Jeff Buckley on music and life

The XIV Dalai Lama seems to many to embody happiness — happiness against the odds, a virtue that is acquired and practiced. Before a live audience in Atlanta, Georgia, Krista had a rare opportunity to mull over the meaning of happiness in contemporary life with him and three global spiritual leaders: a Muslim scholar, a chief rabbi, and a presiding bishop. An invigorating and unpredictable discussion exploring the themes of suffering, beauty, and the nature of the body.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/pursuing-happiness-dalai-lama/147

[Unedited] The Dalai Lama, Jonathan Sacks, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, et al. with Krista Tippett

Context, transcript, and Strayed's expanded advice: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/13/cheryl-strayed-write-like-a-motherfucker-advice/

Excerpted from the New York Public Library podcast: http://www.nypl.org/voices/blogs/blog-channels/podcast

Photograph by Graeme Mitchell for The New York Times

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Cheryl Strayed on how to write like a motherfucker

A passionate translator of the beauty and relevance of scientific questions, Margaret Wertheim is also wise about the limits of science to tell the whole story of the human self across history and culture. And, her Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles reveals evocative, visceral connections between high mathematics, crochet and other folk arts, and our love of the planet.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/margaretwertheim-the-grandeur-and-limits-of-science/7472

Margaret Wertheim — The Grandeur and Limits of Science

He’s been called a "post-millennial Schubert": Mohammed Fairouz has composed four symphonies and an opera while still in his 20s. He invokes John F. Kennedy and Anwar Sadat, Seamus Heaney, and Yehuda Amichai in his compositions — seeing "illustrious language" as a form of music too — and a way, just maybe, to shift the world on its axis.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/mohammed-fairouz-the-world-in-counterpoint/7511

Mohammed Fairouz — The World in Counterpoint

Background, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/01/jfk-amherst-speech/

JFK on poetry and power (Amherst College, 1963)

Physicist and science writer Margaret Wertheim in conversation with On Being host Krista Tippett. Context and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/06/margaret-wertheim-on-being-science-religion

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/margaret-wertheim-the-grandeur-and-limits-of-science?in=onbeing/sets/margaret-wertheim-the-grandeur-and-limits-of-science#t=0:01

Cosmic illustration of Wertheim based on photograph by Noé Montes: http://www.noemontes.com

Physicist Margaret Wertheim on Science and God

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