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Poem By David Whyte For John O'Donohue, music Secret Garden, voice M.J. Hummingway

Background and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/24/mary-oliver-reads-wild-geese/

Recorded by the Lannan Foundation in 2001.

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Mary Oliver reads "Wild Geese"

Watery vibrations calm and soothe with ambient sounds and recordings of ocean waves in this minimal ambient relaxation music.  Cool tones wash over you to help with stress reduction, to slow things down and return to your center.  Composed by Rebecca Reads Recordings.   http://www.readsrecordings.com

Music for Meditation, Yoga & Relaxation

Healing Waters

Apple Music

Healing Waters | Meditation & Yoga | Relaxation & Healing

Often quoted, but rarely interviewed, Mary Oliver is one of our greatest and most beloved poets. She’s just released a new volume, Felicity, at the age of 80. And so we’re revisiting the interview she granted us earlier this year on the wisdom of the world, the salvation of poetry, and the life behind her writing.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/mary-oliver-listening-to-the-world/7267

Mary Oliver — Listening to the World

A short Yoga Nidra meditation practice to encourage deep rest in the body.

Yoga Nidra

A guided mindfulness meditation from meditation teacher Carley Hauck.

A 10-Minute Meditation to Work with Difficult Emotions

My most favorite Eckhart explanation of what he's on about...

Eckhart Tolle - The Secret of Self Realization - Excerpt

“The rocks are beyond slow, beyond strong, and yet yielding to a soft green breath as powerful as a glacier, the mosses wearing away their surfaces, grain by grain bringing them slowly back to sand. There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks, poetry to be sure. About light and shadow and the drift of continents.” This is how Robin Wall Kimmerer writes about moss, which she studies as a botanist and bryologist. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she joins science’s ability to “polish the art of seeing” with her personal, civilizational lineage of “listening” to plant life — heeding the languages of the natural world. This gives her a grammar not of feminine and masculine but of animate and inanimate — a way into the vitality and intelligence of plant life that science is now also seeing. It  opens a new way for us to reimagine a natural reciprocity with the world around us as “a generative and creative way to be a human in the world.”

On Being with Krista Tippett

Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Intelligence In All Kinds Of Life

2018-10-13 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Compassion arises from the willingness to be with suffering. It is a state of great strength and resilience rather than one of weakness or pain. There are many doors to compassion. Explore different ways to access compassion for oneself in this guided meditation.

These talks are offered freely. To donate to support Oren’s work, please visit www.OrenJaySofer.com/support

Oren Jay Sofer

Bringing Ease To Pain, Day 1 Pt 4: Self-Compassion Guided Meditation

Poet and philosopher David Whyte discusses his inner life and the importance of loneliness: "I've always felt that when you do feel loneliness, it's always a kind of inverse measure of what you actually belong to." Part three of The Lonely Hour's mini-series, Inner Lives. 

Original illustration by Payton Cosell Turner.

#33 How Loneliness Tells You Where to Go, with David Whyte

Brilliant talk by Eckhart Tolle on the nature of Happiness and sense of needing more to achieve it 

Potentially life altering!

Eckhart Tolle - Lasting Happiness Pt 1

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.

Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Intelligence In All Kinds Of Life

On Being Studios

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