A strong base is important as a launching pad into life.  We create our lives with the material from the first half of that life, accepting and rejecting elements according to their worth.  We wander far from our origins but also include all those into our growing world view in a transformed way.

I wish Krista would talk less and let Richard answer and explain more.  He has so much to teach us. 

Public theology is about the virtues that accompany the work of theology, not just the ideas. It means connecting grand religious ideas with messy human reality. It means articulating religious and spiritual points of view to challenge and deepen thinking on every side of every important question.

This project is about exploring a new generation of public theology for this century. We inhabit a world in which spiritual life is a fluid and dispersed, multi-faceted, and multiply articulated thing. Seekers and thinkers outside the bounds of religious tradition — scientists and artists, social entrepreneurs and poets — are illuminating the ancient questions of what it means to be human and who we are to each other. And the non-religious among us are some of the most passionate voices calling tradition to its own service-oriented heart.

Public Theology Reimagined

In the remarkable 6-part series called The Power of Myth, Bill Moyers interviews legendary mythologist, Joseph Campbell, on how stories power our lives. In this, the first segment in the series, Campbell takes us on the discovery of the Hero's Journey, a story cycle found throughout our lives.

Joseph Campbell on the "Hero's Journey"

Bestselling authors Eckhart Tolle and Wayne Dyer have touched tens of millions of lives across the globe through their inspirational writing and life-changing public events. Now for the first time, these two master teachers will engage in an open dialogue about spiritual awakening and the transformation of consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle and Wayne Dyer - Maui Retreat Oct. 29, 2011

The author of BIG MAGIC talks to Brene Brown, the author of RISING STRONG, about how essential creativity is for healthy, wholehearted living.

Want more Magic Lessons? Find Elizabeth Gilbert’s podcast here: http://apple.co/2aJgLyd

Magic Lessons Ep. #12: Brene Brown on "Big Strong Magic"

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

01 Practicing The Power of NOW -

If you breath oxygen, you have the responsibility to be a leader no matter what you are and where you are!

ExtraordinaryLeadership ( Robin Sharma )

Eckhart Tolle - Become Happy Today In This MOMENT

Men of all ages say Richard Rohr has given them a new way in to spiritual depth and religious thought — through his writing and retreats. This conversation with the Franciscan spiritual teacher delves into the expansive scope of his ideas: male formation and what he calls "father hunger"; why contemplation is as magnetic to people now, including millennials, as it’s ever been; and how to set about taking the first half of life — the drive to "successful survival" — all the way to meaning.

On Being with Krista Tippett 

Richard Rohr — Living In Deep Time

It’s easy to despair at all the bad news and horrific pictures that come at us daily. But Roshi Joan Halifax says this is a form of empathy that works against us. There’s such a thing as pathological altruism. This zen abbot and medical anthropologist has nourishing wisdom as we face suffering in the world.

On Being with Krista Tippett

Joan Halifax — Buoyancy Rather Than Burnout in Our Lives

A Jesuit priest famous for his gang intervention programs in Los Angeles, Fr. Greg Boyle makes winsome connections between service and delight, and compassion and awe. He heads Homeboy Industries, which employs former gang members in a constellation of businesses. This is not work of helping, he says, but of finding kinship. The point of Christian service, as he lives it, is about “our common calling to delight in one another.”

Greg Boyle — The Calling of Delight: Gangs, Service, and Kinship

The wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to "The Good Book," in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt.

Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith

“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” Mary Karr has a captivating ability to give voice to what is funny in life’s most heartbreaking moments. She is beloved for her salty memoirs in which she traces her harrowing childhood in southeast Texas — with a mother who once tried to kill her with a butcher’s knife and her own adult struggles with alcoholism and breakdown. Mary Karr embodies this wryness and wildness in her lesser-known spiritual practice as a devout Catholic — an unexpected move she made in mid-life.

Mary Karr — Astonished by the Human Comedy

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)

Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet, theologian, and extraordinary healer in our world of fracture. He leads the Corrymeela community of Northern Ireland, a place that has offered refuge since the violent division that defined that country until the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Ó Tuama and Corrymeela extend a quiet, generative, and joyful force far beyond their northern coast to people around the world. Over cups of tea and the experience of bringing people together, he says it becomes possible to talk with each other and be in the same room with the people we talk about.

Pádraig Ó Tuama is the community leader of Corrymeela, Northern Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organization. He finishes his five-year term in 2019. His books include a prayer book, “Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community,” a book of poetry, “Sorry for Your Troubles,” and a memoir, “In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World.”

Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

Pádraig Ó Tuama — Belonging Creates and Undoes Us

In a world searching for happiness, best-selling author Max Lucado provides a personal plan for a life filled with lasting and fulfilling joy, supported by Jesus’ teaching and modern research.

Do you feel happy?

How long has it been since you felt a level of contagious, infectious, unflappable, unstoppable happiness? Maybe your answer is “All the time”. If so, God bless you! (And consider suggesting this audiobook to someone who needs it.) For many of us, the answer is, “Well, it’s been a while. I used to be happy, but then life took its toll.”

Only one-third of Americans surveyed said they were happy. How can this be? Education is accessible to most. We’ve made advancements in everything from medicine to technology, yet 66 percent of us can’t find an adequate reason to check the “yes” box on the happiness questionnaire.

Worldwide, people profess that happiness is their most cherished goal. Marketers get this. “Want to be happy?” they ask. Eat at this restaurant, drive this car, wear this dress. Happiness happens when you lose the weight, get the date, find the mate, or discover your fate. It’s wide, this way to happiness. Yet, for all its promise, it delivers a fragile joy; here one day, tomorrow scattered by the winds of comparison, disappointment, or unmet expectations.

Max writes, “There is another option. It requires no credit card, monthly mortgage, or stroke of fortune. Age and ethnicity aren’t factors...an unexpected door to joy.” 

In this audiobook, Max shares the unexpected path to a lasting happiness, one that produces reliable joy in any season of life. Based on the teachings of Jesus and backed by modern research, How Happiness Happens presents a surprising but practical way of living that will change you from the inside out.

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HOW HAPPINESS HAPPENS by Max Lucado | Devotional Two

NEW DECADE, NEW SLEEP GOALS. So often we glorify not getting enough sleep. We brag about pulling an all-nighter. We “grind” or wake up at the crack of dawn. Some of us think that staying up is helping us achieve our dreams. But sleep is key to our mental and physical health. It even keeps us young. So why do so many of us put quality sleep on the back burner? On today’s episode of The School of Greatness, I talk about sleep with a bestselling author on the subject: Shawn Stevenson. Shawn Stevenson is an author of “Sleep Smarter” and creator of The Model Health Show, featured as the #1 Health podcast in the country on iTunes. A graduate of The University of Missouri - St. Louis, Shawn studied business, biology and kinesiology, and went on to be the founder of Advanced Integrative Health Alliance, a company that provides wellness services for individuals and organizations worldwide. Shawn says that often we look at sleep as something we should sacrifice to be more present for other people and our goals. But the word sacrifice actually means “to make sacred.” We need to make sleep a sacred practice that heals our body and mind.

So get ready to learn how and why you should have more restful sleep on Episode 896.

Some Questions I Ask:
What is sleep? (16:00)
How bad is sugar for sleep? (28:00)
What does the research say about eating before sleep (32:30)
What is the optimal evening routine? (52:30)
What is the optimal amount of hours of sleep? (1:07:00)

In This Episode You Will Learn:
The four stages of sleep (19:00)
Why you need sleep to produce Human Growth Hormone (21:00)
About the REM Rebound Effect
The relationship between sleep and aging (40:00)
How the body receives melatonin (47:00)
Hacks for using technology while preparing for sleep (57:30)
Why you should keep your room cold when you sleep (1:02:00)

The School of Greatness

On Apple Podcasts

The Science of Sleep for Ultimate Success with Shawn Stevenson

The Magic Of Changing Your Thinking! (Full Book) ~ Law Of Attraction

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.

Richard Rohr — Living In Deep Time

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