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David Whyte:  The Poetry of Self-Compassion

Krista Tippett reflects on not playing the Christmas game of obligatory gift-giving and the redemptive human need for one another. Read the complete essay at http://www.onbeing.org/blog/why-i-dont-do-christmas/7153

Why I Don't Do Christmas by Krista Tippett

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An unrehearsed, dramatic read-through of the text we'll be discussing on ep. 117, a Greek tragedy written around 441 BCE, telling the myth of the cursed line of Oedipus, mother-f*#king king of Thebes. Featuring Mark, Seth, Wes, and Dylan, plus special guest stars Lucy Lawless as Antigone, Paul Provenza as Creon, Alice Sinclair as Ismene, and John Castro as Haimon.

After the performance, the cast discusses the conventions of Greek tragedy, our selected translation, and a little about why philosophers should be interested in this.

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End song: "Antigone (Choragos Speaks)" by Mark Lint.

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Antigone Reading with Lucy Lawless and Paul Provenza

“Race is a little bit like gravity,” john powell says: experienced by all, understood by the few. He is an esteemed legal scholar and thinker who counsels all kinds of people and projects on the front lines of our present racial anguish and longings. Race is relational, he reminds us. It’s as much about whiteness as about color. And it largely plays out, as we’re learning through new science, in our unconscious minds. john powell is steeped in this new learning and offers it to us, as a form of everyday power, to animate our belonging to others that is already real. But we must claim it. 

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/john-a-powell-opening-the-question-of-race-to-the-question-of-belonging/7695

john a. powell — The Human Condition is about Belonging

Genetics describes DNA sequencing, but epigenetics sees that genes can be turned on and off and expressed differently through changes in environment and behavior. Rachel Yehuda is a pioneer in understanding how the effects of stress and trauma can transmit biologically, beyond cataclysmic events, to the next generation. She has studied the children of Holocaust survivors and of pregnant women who survived the 9/11 attacks. But her science is a form of power for flourishing beyond the traumas large and small that mark each of our lives and those of our families and communities.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/rachel-yehuda-how-trauma-and-resilience-cross-generations/7786

Rachel Yehuda — How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations

The Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue was beloved for his book Anam Ċara, Gaelic for "soul friend," and for his insistence on beauty as a human calling. In one of his last interviews before his death in 2008, he articulated a Celtic imagination about how the material and the spiritual — the visible and the invisible — intertwine in human experience. His voice and writings continue to bring ancient mystical wisdom to modern confusions and longings.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/john-o-donohue-the-inner-landscape-beauty/203

John O'Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty

Few features of humanity are more fascinating than creativity; and few fields are more dynamic now than neuroscience. Rex Jung is a neuropsychologist who puts the two together. He's working on a cutting edge of science, exploring the differences and interplay between intelligence and creativity. He and his colleagues unsettle long-held beliefs about who is creative and who is not. And they're seeing practical, often common-sense connections between creativity and family life, aging, and purpose.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/creativity-and-everyday-brain/1879

Rex Jung — Creativity And The Everyday Brain

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Are you frustrated by stymied relationships, missed connections, and the loneliness of the search for someone to spend the rest of your life with? Are you ready, instead, to find &#8220;The One&#8221;? In Calling in &#8220;The One,&#8221; Katherine Woodward Thomas shares her own personal experience to show women that in order to find the relationship that will last a lifetime, you have to be truly open and ready to create a loving, committed, romantic union. Calling in &#8220;The One&#8221; shows you how. Based on the Law of Attraction, which is the concept that we can only attract what we&#8217;re ready to receive, the provocative yet simple seven-week program in Calling in &#8220;The One&#8221; prepares you to bring forth the love you seek. For each of the 49 days of Thomas&#8217;s thoughtful and life-affirming plan, there is a daily lesson, a corresponding practice, and instruction for putting that lesson into action in your life. Meditation, visualization, and journaling exercises will gently lead you to recognize the obstacles on your path to love and provide ways to steer around them. At the end of those 49 days, you will be in the ideal emotional state to go out into the world and find &#8220;The One.&#8221; An inspirational approach that offers a radical new philosophy on relationships, Calling in &#8220;The One&#8221; is your guide to finding the love you seek.

Calling in "The One" by Katherine Woodward Thomas, read by Katherine Woodward Thomas

#1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell shares the secrets to success in this 90-day guide, based on his book Thinking For a Change.
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J.R.R. Tolkien reads from The Lord of the Rings

Maria Konnikova’s new book, The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time, takes a deep dive into the psychology of con artists and the psychology of the trusting people they take advantage of. It’s a scary and fascinating book that reveals the methods and motives of con artists like Bernie Madoff, Jim Bakker, and Lance Armstrong, and explains why everyone is vulnerable to the con artist’s game, even other con artists.

11: Marina Konnikova, author of The Confidence Game

&ldquo;I know where I&rsquo;m going. I&rsquo;m still myself. I just can&rsquo;t remember things as well as I once did. So on short trips, I work hard not to be confused. I&rsquo;ll say to myself, What are we going to do? How long are we staying? It&rsquo;s like I&rsquo;m talking to my other self&mdash;the self I used to be. She tells me, This is what we need to buy&mdash;not that. I&rsquo;m conscious of that other self guiding me now.&rdquo; &#160; Restaurateur, magazine publisher, celebrity chef, and nationally known lifestyle maven, B. Smith is struggling at 66 with a tag she never expected to add to that string: Alzheimer's patient.&#160; She&rsquo;s not alone. Every 67 seconds someone newly develops it, and millions of lives are affected by its aftershocks. &#160; B. and her husband, Dan, working with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson, unstintingly share their unfolding story. Crafted in short chapters that interweave their narrative with practical and helpful advice, readers learn about dealing with Alzheimer's day-to-day challenges: the family realities and tensions, ways of coping, coming research that may tip the scale, as well as lessons learned along the way. &#160; At its heart, Before I Forget is a love story: illuminating a love of family, life, and hope.

Before I Forget by B. Smith, Dan Gasby, Michael Shnayerson, read by B. Smith, Dan Gasby

"Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. But hope without critical thinking is naïveté. I try to live in this space between the two." The creator and editor of Brain Pickings on the pratfalls and promise of knowledge-sharing in the digital age.

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Mapping Meaning in a Digital Age | Maria Popova [Becoming Wise]

Today on The Glenn Beck Program, more Trump rally violence? Religious freedom in America. More GOP poll numbers...and more! 

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There have been a number of cases threatening religious liberty at the Supreme Court this year and the death of Justice Antonin Scalia makes the upcoming decisions even more significant. Today’s Federalist Radio Hour featured legal experts following these cases as well as a local Oregon business woman whose own religious liberty has been threatened.

Professor Helen Alvaré teaches law at George Mason University School of Law, and is the founder of Women Speak for Themselves, a community of over 43,000 women activists for both religious freedom and women’s freedom. Alvaré explained the latest on this Wednesday’s oral argument before the Supreme Court in the case of the Little Sisters of the Poor v. Sylvia Burwell.

Harmony Daws, of Oregon, was fired from her job at a housecleaning business after she was nominated president of a local pro-life organization. Daws said she fears Americans’ First Amendment rights are at stake. “I respect [my employer’s] decision to terminate me, even if it was for a horrible reason, but I’m going to turn around and go back to the marketplace,” she said.

Finally, Casey Mattox, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, discussed the HHS mandate, the recent SCOTUS nomination and the reason for protecting free speech on college campuses.

This Week's Cases Before SCOTUS Threatening Religious Liberty

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Billy Collins reads "Aristotle"

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Today the editor of The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol, joined the Federalist Radio Hour to discuss the potential of a third party candidate in the 2016 election, the tactical priorities of it, and some of the concerns that conservatives have about the future of the Republican party.

“I think it’s a good idea because I think people should have an alternative to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump,” Kirstol said. “It’s not too late to get on the ballot. It’s a little challenging in one or two states...but basically if you could raise money and have someone with some stature, it’s a doable.”

Kristol and Domenech discuss what they come to understand as the reason for Trump, including the desire for big change. “‘There is a big desire for big change and the other candidates didn’t capitalize on that enough,” Kristol said. “It’s easy to say well, ‘At least it’s big change, we’ll take the risk,’ but history suggests irresponsible ways of responsible to legitimate grievances... they can go pretty wrong.”

There is a general perception that the Republican Party is in crisis and that it lacks a sense of identity. While they’ve seen their share of failures, Kristol said he thinks there is enough data to show that conservatism should be stronger than it was 50 years ago. “I agree there is a crisis of self-confidence, and there also some of big things that haven’t succumb to conservative recipes or prescriptions,” Kristol said.

The Potential for a Third-Party Candidate with Bill Kristol

"Your body, for as long as it possibly can, will be faithful to living. That's what it does." Matthew Sanford, an innovator of adaptive yoga, on taking a new orientation to our physical change and pain, and the outward healing that can result.

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Compassion for Our Bodies | Matthew Sanford [Becoming Wise]

David Whyte reads his poem "Everything Is Waiting for You." 

Find more at www.onbeing.org/program/david-whyte-the-conversational-nature-of-reality/8560

"Everything Is Waiting for You" by David Whyte

David Whyte reads his poem "Finisterre." 

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"Finisterre" by David Whyte

David Whyte reads his poem "Stone" (Thobar Phadraig). 

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"Stone" (Thobar Phadraig) by David Whyte

David Whyte reads his poem "Sweet Darkness."

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"Sweet Darkness" by David Whyte

David Whyte reads "Vulnerability," an excerpt from his book "Consolations." 

"Vulnerability" by David Whyte

David Whyte reads his poem "Working Together." 

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"Working Together" by David Whyte

“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet / confinement of your aloneness / to learn / anything or anyone / that does not bring you alive / is too small for you.”

David Whyte is a poet and philosopher who believes in the power of a “beautiful question” amidst the drama of work as well as the drama of life — amidst the ways the two overlap, whether we want them to or not. He shared a deep friendship with the late Irish philosopher John O’Donohue. They were, David Whyte says, like “two bookends.” More recently, he’s written about the consolation, nourishment, and underlying meaning of everyday words.

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David Whyte — The Conversational Nature of Reality

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of 7 books, including "Eat Pray Love," the novel "The Signature of All Things," and her most recently released "Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Elizabeth Gilbert — Choosing Curiosity Over Fear." Find more at onbeing.org.

[Unedited] Elizabeth Gilbert with Krista Tippett

Her name is synonymous with her fantastically best-selling memoir Eat Pray Love. But through the disorienting process of becoming a global celebrity, Elizabeth Gilbert has also reflected deeply on the gift and challenge of inhabiting a creative life. Creativity, as she defines it, is about choosing curiosity over fear — not to be confused with the more familiar trope to "follow your passion” — but rather as something accessible to us all and good for our life together.

Elizabeth Gilbert — Choosing Curiosity Over Fear

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)

From a BBC radio segment broadcast on April 29th, 1937. Background and transcript:http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/29/craftsmanship-virginia-woolf-speaks-1937/ 

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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.

"Working Together" by David Whyte

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