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"The big thing for me is to love reality and not live in the imagination, not live in what could have been or what should have been or what can be, and somewhere, to love reality and then discover that God is present."

Jean Vanier is a French Canadian philosopher and Roman Catholic social innovator who founded the L'Arche movement, a community centered around people with mental disabilities. He’s devoted his life to the practical application of Christianity’s most basic and paradoxical teachings — that there’s power in humility, strength in weakness, and light in the darkness of human existence:

    "It’s the realization of how to create a culture which is no longer a culture just of competition, but a culture of welcoming, where tenderness, where touch is important, and it's neither sexualized nor aggressive. It has become human. And I think that this is what people with disabilities are teaching us. It's something about what it means to be human and to relate and to celebrate life together."

A rare opportunity to sit down with a man who some consider to be a living saint.

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Jean Vanier — The Wisdom of Tenderness: Lived Compassion, L'Arche, and Becoming Human (Aug 22, 2013)

This unedited conversation with Eckhart Tolle comes from our produced show "Eckhart Tolle on the Power of Now."

One of today's most influential spiritual teachers shares his youthful experience of depression and despair — suffering that led him to his own spiritual breakthrough, and ultimately, freedom and peace of mind. He also explicates his view of what he calls "the pain body" — the accumulated emotional pain that may influence us and our relationships in negative ways. And Tolle talks about spirit and God, and what those concepts mean to him.


See more at www.onbeing.org/program/power-eckhart-tolles-now/217

[Unedited] Eckhart Tolle with Krista Tippett

Art, life, and religious faith converge in Paul Elie's unusual biography of the intersecting stories of four literary Americans of the 20th century: Trappist monk Thomas Merton, social activist Dorothy Day, and fiction writers Walker Percy and Flannery O'Connor. "Certain books, certain writers," Elie says, "reach us at the center of ourselves." 

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/faith-fired-literature/99

Paul Elie — Faith Fired by Literature (Feb 20, 2014)

Dr. Sherwin Nuland died this week at the age of 83. He became well-known for his first book, How We Die, which won the National Book Award. For him, pondering death was a way of wondering at life — and the infinite variety of processes that maintain human life moment to moment. He reflects on the meaning of life by way of scrupulous and elegant detail about human physiology.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/biology-spirit/184

About the image: Zoe Middleton poses behind an artwork entitled 'My Soul' by Katharine Dawson, which consists of a laser etched lead chrystal glass formation in the shape of a brain, and was created using the artists own MRI Scan, from an exhibit at the Wellcome Collection in London. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images.

Sherwin Nuland — The Biology of the Spirit (Mar 6, 2014)

Brian McLaren is an influential voice in the worlds of progressive Evangelicalism and what has been called “emerging” Christianity. In a provocative conversation on the meaning and future of Church, he envisions a community where diversity no longer means division.

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/brian-mclaren-the-equation-of-change/6175

Brian McLaren — The Equation of Change (Mar 13, 2014)

What Adele Diamond is learning about the brain challenges basic assumptions in modern education. Her work is scientifically illustrating the educational power of things like play, sports, music, memorization, and reflection. What nourishes the human spirit, the whole person, it turns out, also hones our minds.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/learning-doing-being-new-science-education/121

Adele Diamond — How We Learn to Listen

The third in a four-part series, "The American Consciousness."

If journalism is a primary way we tell the story of ourselves and our time, Michel Martin is a person helping us tell that story — and take part in it — more completely. Her daily NPR program Tell Me More was often labeled as “diversity” or “minority” programming. But in fact, she and her journalism are about a more generous and realistic sweep of who we are now — and how we’re creating our life together anew. At the Chautauqua Institution, we mine her wisdom on the emerging fabric of human identity.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/michel-martin-the-fabric-of-our-identity/6791

Michel Martin — The Fabric of Our Identity

We live in a world that is recreating itself one life and one digital connection at a time. On this landscape for which there are no maps, Seth Godin is a singular thought leader and innovator in what he describes as our post-industrial "connection economy." Rather than merely tolerate change, he says, we are all called now to rise to it. We are invited and stretched in whatever we do to be artists — to create in ways that matter to other people.

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Seth Godin — The Art of Noticing, and Then Creating

Courage is borne out of vulnerability, not strength. This finding of Brené Brown’s research on shame and "wholeheartedness" shook the perfectionist ground beneath her own feet. And now it’s inspiring millions to reconsider the way they live, parent, and navigate relations with members of the opposite gender.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/brene-brown-on-vulnerability/4928

Brené Brown — The Courage to Be Vulnerable

Eve Ensler has helped women all over the world tell the stories of their lives through the stories of their bodies. Her play, "The Vagina Monologues," has become a global force in the face of violence against women and girls. But she herself also had a violent childhood. And it turns out that she herself was like so many of us western women, obsessed by our bodies and yet not inhabiting them — without even knowing we're not inhabiting them. Until she got cancer.

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Eve Ensler — The Body After Cancer

Eckhart Tolle is reading from his book: Practicing the Power of Now

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A survivor of the Holocaust, in which he lost most of his family, Wiesel is a seminal chronicler of that event and its meaning. Wiesel shares some of his thoughts on modern-day Israel and Germany, his understanding of God, and his practice of prayer after the Holocaust. 

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/tragedy-believer/232

Elie Wiesel — The Tragedy of the Believer (July 13, 2006)

We make a radio pilgrimage into the world of L'Arche, communities formed around people with mental disabilities and others who share life with them. At the heart of the L'Arche movement is a religious idea of difference as normal and imperfection as a source of strength.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/larche-community-brokenness-and-beauty/116

Jo Anne Horstmann — L'Arche: A Community of Brokenness and Beauty (Aug 2, 2007)

Poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht says that as a scholar she always noticed the "shadow history" of doubt out of the corner of her eye. She shows how non-belief, skepticism, and doubt have paralleled and at times shaped the world's great religious and secular belief systems. She suggests that only in modern time has doubt been narrowly equated with a complete rejection of faith, or a broader sense of mystery.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/history-doubt/51

Jennifer Michael Hecht — A History of Doubt (January 8, 2009)

One of today's most influential spiritual teachers shares his youthful experience of depression and despair -- suffering that led him to his own spiritual breakthrough, and ultimately, freedom and peace of mind. He also explicates his view of what he calls "the pain body" -- the accumulated emotional pain that may influence us and our relationships in negative ways. And Tolle talks about spirit and God, and what those concepts mean to him.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/power-eckhart-tolles-now/217

Eckhart Tolle — The Power of Now (Oct 8, 2009)

Astrophysicist Mario Livio studies dark energy and white dwarfs. Working with NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope, he says these 'images have become part of our culture.' Through that window, he sees cosmic puzzles and questions that are as rich as any of their current answers.

Mario Livio — Who Ordered This? New Mysteries of an Expanding Universe (Dec 8, 2011)

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

Jennifer Michael Hecht — A History of Doubt (January 8, 2009)

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