Clint Smith — What We Know in the Marrow of Our Bones @onbeing

The On Being Project This phrase recurs throughout Clint Smith's writing: "in the marrow of our bones." It is an example of how words can hold encrypted wisdom — in this case, the reality that memory and emotion lodge in us physically. Words and phrases have carried this truth forward in time long before we had the science to understand it.

Clint Smith is best known for his 2021 book, How the Word Is Passed (@LittlebrownandCo), but he is first and foremost a poet. He and Krista discuss how his various life chapters have been real-world laboratories for him to investigate the entanglement between language and the intelligence of the body — and the related entanglement between history and place. His poetic sensibility has singularly opened readers to approach a generative reckoning with American history — on whatever side of that history our ancestors stood.

Clint Smith has a way of making reckoning possible at a humanizing, softening, bodily level — in the marrow, you might say, of our bones.

Animation by: Neon Zoo, @weareneonzoo

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Clint Smith — What We Know in the Marrow of Our Bones

The On Being Project 2023-11-02 | This phrase recurs throughout Clint Smith's writing: "in the marrow of our bones." It is an example of how words can hold encrypted wisdom — in this case, the reality that memory and emotion lodge in us physically. Words and phrases have carried this truth forward in time long before we had the science to understand it.

Clint Smith is best known for his 2021 book, How the Word Is Passed (@LittlebrownandCo), but he is first and foremost a poet. He and Krista discuss how his various life chapters have been real-world laboratories for him to investigate the entanglement between language and the intelligence of the body — and the related entanglement between history and place. His poetic sensibility has singularly opened readers to approach a generative reckoning with American history — on whatever side of that history our ancestors stood.

Clint Smith has a way of making reckoning possible at a humanizing, softening, bodily level — in the marrow, you might say, of our bones.

Animation by: Neon Zoo, @weareneonzoo

ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

THE PODCAST
Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more. We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

On Being with Krista Tippett: onbeing.org/series/podcast

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In the Room with Matthew Sanford and Krista Tippett

The On Being Project 2023-12-10 | Watch this special in-studio recording of Krista Tippett's 2006 interview with renowned yoga teacher Matthew Sanford. A wondrous, buried treasure from the 20-year On Being archive.

Be prepared, as you listen to what follows, to take in subtleties and gracefulness you've never before pondered — or tried to feel in yourself — in the interplay between your mind and your body.

Matthew has an immensely energetic physical presence. He has been paralyzed from the chest down since a car accident in 1978. But he likes to say that his experience is only more extreme, not so different, from that of everyone else. He's written, "We are all leaving our bodies — this is the inevitable arc of living. Death cannot be avoided; neither can the inward silence that comes with the aging process." Matthew’s intricate knowledge of that "inward silence," which he was forced to befriend after the noisy connections which most of us take for granted were severed — it’s revelatory. So is his insistence that it’s not possible to live more deeply in your body — in all its grace and all its flaws — without becoming more compassionate towards all of life. And: if you do yoga, you will never think about what it is affecting inside you in the same way again.

Krista sat with Matthew Sanford just after he'd published his beautiful book Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence.

[This interview is unedited and uses autogenerated closed captioning. You can find the edited and produced interview with music and full closed captioning in the On Being episode "Matthew Sanford — The Body's Grace." Listen here: youtu.be/zFP5EknSJt8 ]

Nick Cave — Loss, Yearning, Transcendence

The On Being Project 2023-11-22 | Here are some experiences to which Nick Cave gives voice and song: the "universal condition" of yearning, and of loss; a "spirituality of rigor"; and the transcendent and moral dimensions of what music is about. This Australian musician, writer, and actor first made a name in the wild world of ’80s post-punk and later with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (@nickcave) He also underwent public struggles with addiction and rehab.

Since the accidental death of his 15-year-old son Arthur in 2015, and a few years later, the death of his eldest child Jethro, he has entered yet another transfigured era, co-created an exquisite book called Faith, Hope and Carnage, and become a frank and eloquent interlocutor on grief. As a human and a songwriter, Nick Cave is an embodiment of a life examined and evolved. He sat with Krista in the On Being studio in Minneapolis, and the gorgeous conversation that followed is woven in this episode with his gorgeous music.

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A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
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A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

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Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more. We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

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Sara Hendren — Our Bodies, Aliveness, and the Built World

The On Being Project 2023-11-16 | Our built world is designed around something called "normal," and yet every single one of our bodies is mysterious, and constantly adapting for better or worse — and always, always changing. This is a fact so ordinary — and yet not something most of us routinely pause to know and to ponder and work with. But Sara Hendren has made it her passion, bringing to it her varied vocations and gifts: being a painter and loving how art reveals truth not by way of simplicity, but by juxtaposition; teaching design to engineering students; parenting three beloved children, one of whom has Down syndrome.

This is a conversation that will have you moving through the world both marveling at the ordinary adaptations that bodies make and asking, in Sara's words, "restless and generative questions": of why we organize the physical world as though vulnerability and needs for assistance are not commonplace — indeed salutary — forms of experience that reveal the genius of what being human is all about.

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An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

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Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more. We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

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Christiana Figueres — Ecological Hope, and Spiritual Evolution

The On Being Project 2023-11-09 | The ecological crisis we are standing before is at once civilizational and personal — intimately close to each of us in the places we love and inhabit, and unfolding at a species level. And as much as anyone alive on the planet now, Christiana Figueres has felt the overwhelm of this and stepped into service. She gives voice so eloquently to the grief that we feel and must allow to bind us to each other — and what she sees as a spiritual evolution the natural world is calling us to.

If you have wondered how to keep hope alive amidst a thousand reasons to despair, if you are ready to take your despair as fuel — intrigued by the idea of stepping into love and immediate realities of abundance and regeneration — this conversation is for you.

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A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

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Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more. We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

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[Extended] Clint Smith with Krista Tippett

The On Being Project 2023-11-03 | This phrase recurs throughout Clint Smith's writing: "in the marrow of our bones." It is an example of how words can hold encrypted wisdom — in this case, the reality that memory and emotion lodge in us physically. Words and phrases have carried this truth forward in time long before we had the science to understand it.

Clint Smith is best known for his 2021 book, How the Word Is Passed (@LittlebrownandCo) but he is first and foremost a poet. He and Krista discuss how his various life chapters have been real-world laboratories for him to investigate the entanglement between language and the intelligence of the body — and the related entanglement between history and place. His poetic sensibility has singularly opened readers to approach a generative reckoning with American history — on whatever side of that history our ancestors stood.

Clint Smith has a way of making reckoning possible at a humanizing, softening, bodily level — in the marrow, you might say, of our bones.

This interview is extended and uses autogenerated closed captioning. You can find the edited and produced interview with music and full closed captioning in the On Being episode "Clint Smith — What We Know in the 'Marrow of Our Bones'." Listen here: youtu.be/PmD9Stf2EY8

Animation by: Neon Zoo, @weareneonzoo

ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

THE PODCAST
Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more. We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

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[Unedited] Latanya Sweeney with Krista Tippett

The On Being Project 2023-10-27 | You may not know Latanya Sweeney's name, but as much as any other single person — and with good humor and grace as well as brilliance — she has led on the frontier of our gradual understanding of how far from anonymous you and I are in almost any database we inhabit, and how far from neutral all the algorithms by which we increasingly navigate our lives.

In this conversation with Krista, she brings a helpful big-picture view to our lives with technology, seeing how far we've come — and not — since the advent of the internet, and setting that in the context of history both industrial and digital. She insists that we don't have to accept the harms of digital technology in order to reap its benefits — and she sees very clearly the work that will take. From where she sits, the new generative AI is in equal measure an exciting and alarming evolution. And she shares with us the questions she is asking, and how she and her students and the emerging field of Public Interest Technology might help us all make sense.

This is the second in what will be an ongoing occasional On Being episode to delve into and accompany our lives with this new technological revolution — training clear eyes on downsides and dangers while cultivating an attention to how we might elevate the new frontier of AI — and how, in fact, it might invite us more deeply into our humanity.

This interview is unedited and uses autogenerated closed captioning. You can find the edited and produced interview with music and full closed captioning in the On Being episode "Latanya Sweeney — On Shaping Technology to Human Purpose." Listen here: youtube.com/watch?v=p2W96Pt7OXc

Animation by: Neon Zoo, @weareneonzoo

ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

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Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more. We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

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Latanya Sweeney — On Shaping Technology to Human Purpose

The On Being Project 2023-10-27 | You may not know Latanya Sweeney's name, but as much as any other single person — and with good humor and grace as well as brilliance — she has led on the frontier of our gradual understanding of how far from anonymous you and I are in almost any database we inhabit, and how far from neutral all the algorithms by which we increasingly navigate our lives.

In this conversation with Krista, she brings a helpful big-picture view to our lives with technology, seeing how far we've come — and not — since the advent of the internet, and setting that in the context of history both industrial and digital. She insists that we don't have to accept the harms of digital technology in order to reap its benefits — and she sees very clearly the work that will take. From where she sits, the new generative AI is in equal measure an exciting and alarming evolution. And she shares with us the questions she is asking, and how she and her students and the emerging field of Public Interest Technology might help us all make sense.

This is the second in what will be an ongoing occasional On Being episode to delve into and accompany our lives with this new technological revolution — training clear eyes on downsides and dangers while cultivating an attention to how we might elevate the new frontier of AI — and how, in fact, it might invite us more deeply into our humanity.

Animation by: Neon Zoo, @weareneonzoo

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A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

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Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more. We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

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Matthew Sanford — The Bodys Grace

The On Being Project 2023-10-20 | A wondrous, buried treasure from the 20-year On Being archive, with renowned yoga teacher Matthew Sanford. Be prepared, as you listen to what follows, to take in subtleties and gracefulness you've never before pondered — or tried to feel in yourself — in the interplay between your mind and your body.

Matthew has an immensely energetic physical presence. He has been paralyzed from the chest down since a car accident in 1978. But he likes to say that his experience is only more extreme, not so different, from that of everyone else. He's written, "We are all leaving our bodies — this is the inevitable arc of living. Death cannot be avoided; neither can the inward silence that comes with the aging process." Matthew’s intricate knowledge of that "inward silence," which he was forced to befriend after the noisy connections which most of us take for granted were severed — it’s revelatory. So is his insistence that it’s not possible to live more deeply in your body — in all its grace and all its flaws — without becoming more compassionate towards all of life. And: if you do yoga, you will never think about what it is affecting inside you in the same way again.

Krista sat with Matthew Sanford in 2006, just after he'd published his beautiful book Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence.

Animation by: Neon Zoo, @weareneonzoo

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A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

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Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more. We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

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Christine Runyan — A Compassionate Body Scan

The On Being Project 2023-10-20 | With an intricate understanding of the nervous system response that is always unfolding below the level of consciousness, Dr. Christine Runyan guides this gentle, practical, sensory meditation to calm your body from the inside out — "blanket it" with a bit of tenderness and kindness.

Receive more of Runyan’s wisdom by listening to her On Being conversation with Krista, “On Healing Our Distressed Nervous Systems”

Listen at On Being: onbeing.org/programs/christine-runyan-on-healing-our-distressed-nervous-systems

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Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more. We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

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Baratunde Thurston — How to Be a Social Creative

The On Being Project 2023-10-12 | Baratunde Thurston (@baratunde) is a comedian, writer, and media entrepreneur. He has eyes open to the contradictions, strangeness, and beauty of being human. He looks for learning happening even amidst our hardest cultural tangles. And he intertwines all of this, innovatively and searchingly, with his lifelong joy in the natural world.

The kaleidoscopic view of life and love and the world that is Baratunde's builds and builds in this conversation Krista had with him around the edges of the 2023 Aspen Ideas Festival — towards an exuberant glimpse of how we can all be more fully human and socially creative.

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Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more. We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

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Reid Hoffman — AI, and What It Means to Be (More) Human

The On Being Project 2023-10-05 | In this season of On Being and those to come, we are going to train the core human questions on the emerging “generative AI.” Beyond the hype and the doom, what is this new technology calling us to as human beings? What is our agency to shape it to human purpose, and how might it bring us — literally — to our senses? This inaugural conversation with Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) is a wide and deep beginning foundation. He and Krista venture into unexpectedly relevant places, like the nature of friendship in human life, and what it would mean to create “contained, boundaried AI” — and Reid's use of words like “delightful” and “elevating” as qualities we can impart to this technology which, as we're hearing again and again, is going to change everything.

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ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

THE PODCAST
Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more.

We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

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Kerry Washington — Acting as a Devotional Practice

The On Being Project 2023-09-28 | “Becoming other people” for a living, as Kerry Washington (@kerrywashingtonvideo) likes to describe her craft, turns out to be a revelatory lens on the high drama that is the human condition. As a “learning actor,” a kind of actor-anthropologist, she has brought elegance and moral rigor to all kinds of roles: as the uber-glamorous, tough-as-nails Olivia Pope on Scandal ; as the wife of Idi Amin and the wife of Ray Charles; from Little Fires Everywhere to Django Unchained. Just after Scandal ended seven triumphant seasons, she starred on Broadway as Kendra, a jeans-clad mother in a Miami police station waiting to hear what has happened to her beloved son. Krista was in that audience, and saw how Kerry attended not just to her role on stage but to bringing a beautifully racially mixed audience to participating and reflecting together.

So this conversation has been a while in coming. It is rich with grace and surprising angles of insight — on the roles we all learn to play in the stories of the lives that we are given, and the evolution that is possible in how we assume those characters and leave them behind and grow them up.

This episode of On Being was produced with consideration of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike and with external legal guidance. In distributing this episode, we attest to our belief that no statements made involve promotion of struck work in violation of the SAG-AFTRA Strike Order.

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Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more.

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Kate Bowler — A Blessing for the Life You Didnt Choose

The On Being Project 2023-09-23 | This blessing is featured in Kate’s conversation with Krista, “On Being in a Body.” It's published in her book The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days.

Kate Bowler's beloved books include Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved) and most recently, The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days. She is an associate professor at Duke Divinity School, and made an early name in her field of American religious history with her 2013 book Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel. She also hosts the podcast Everything Happens.

Delve more deeply into Kate Bowler's wisdom in her 2023 On Being conversation with Krista, “On Being in a Body.”
—Listen on YouTube: youtu.be/n_sKl0A_Ww8
—Listen at On Being: onbeing.org/programs/kate-bowler-on-being-in-a-body

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Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more.

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Kate Bowler — On Being in a Body

The On Being Project 2023-09-21 | We love the theologian Kate Bowler's allergy to every platitude and her wisdom and wit about the strange and messy fullness of what it means to be in a human body. She's best known for her 2018 book Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) — a poetic and powerful reflection on learning at age 35 that she had Stage IV colon cancer.

From a reset on how to think about aging, to the new reality in our time of living with cancer as a chronic illness, to the telling of truths to our young, this beautiful conversation is full of the vividly whole humanity that Kate Bowler singularly embodies.

(Also, as you'll hear, if she hadn't become a theologian, she might have been a stand-up comedian.)

Krista and Kate spoke as part of the 2023 Aspen Ideas Festival (@aspeninstitute).

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Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more.

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A New Season of On Being Is Coming

The On Being Project 2023-09-15 | A big conversation to live by starting NEXT WEEK — every Thursday — from September 21.

Loss — and love. AI — and the intelligence that lives in our bodies.

Kerry Washington, Kate Bowler, Reid Hoffman, Latanya Sweeney, Nick Cave, Baratunde Thurston … and more.

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Jason Reynolds —Imagination and Fortitude

The On Being Project 2023-09-01 | Jason Reynolds was the 2020-2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature of the Library of Congress — and is a magnificent source of wisdom for human society as a whole. He’s driven by compassion and the clear-eyed honesty that the young both possess and demand of the rest of us. Hear him on “breathlaughter”; the libraries in all of our heads; and a stunning working definition of anti-racism: “simply the muscle that says humans are human … I love you, because you remind me more of myself than not.”

This episode last aired on July 1, 2021.

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Bessel van der Kolk — How Trauma Lodges in the Body, Revisited

The On Being Project 2023-08-26 | We are living collectively through one vast, overwhelming experience after the other, and trauma therapist Bessel van der Kolk's book The Body Keeps the Score has become one of the most widely read books in the world. In this beloved episode, Krista draws out his very practical knowledge — a distinctively illuminating perspective towards meeting what is happening in our world and inside each of us.

Bessel van der Kolk is a psychiatrist, trauma researcher, and educator based in Brookline, Massachusetts, and a professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School. His books include Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on the Mind, Body, and Society and The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.

This episode last aired on November 11, 2021.

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Krista Tippett — Calling and Wholeness

The On Being Project 2023-08-20 | In the modern Western world, vocation was equated with work. But each of us has callings not merely to be professionals, but to be friends, neighbors, colleagues, family, citizens, lovers of the world. Each of us imprints the people in the world around us, breath to breath and hour to hour, as much in who we are and how we are present as in whatever we do. And just as there are callings for a life, there are callings for our time.

This is part of our On Being Foundations for Being Alive Now series. Four short offerings, more wisdom practice than podcast: life-giving, hope-generating words, ideas and practices that can literally shape your experience of reality — and shape what can become possible.

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Ocean Vuong — A Life Worthy of Our Breath

The On Being Project 2023-08-19 | Krista interviewed the wise and wonderful writer Ocean Vuong on March 8, 2020, in a joyful, crowded room full of podcasters in Brooklyn. A state of emergency had just been declared in New York, but no one guessed that within a handful of days such an event would become unimaginable.

Most stunning is how presciently, exquisitely Ocean speaks to the world we have come to inhabit— its heartbreak and its poetry, its possibilities for loss and for finding new life.

“I want to love more than death can harm. And I want to tell you this often: That despite being so human and so terrified, here, standing on this unfinished staircase to nowhere and everywhere, surrounded by the cold and starless night — we can live. And we will.”

Ocean Vuong is the author of a novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, and two collections of poetry, Time Is a Mother and Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whiting Award. He was a 2019 MacArthur Fellow.

This episode last aired on May 3, 2023.

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Krista Tippett — Taking a Long View of Time, and Becoming Critical Yeast

The On Being Project 2023-08-13 | We inhabit a liminal time between what we thought we knew and what we can’t quite yet see. But time is more spacious than we imagine it to be, and it is more of a friend than we always know. Cracking time open, seeing its true manifold nature, expands a sense of the possible in the here and the now. It sends us back to work with the raw materials of our lives, understanding that these are always the materials of change even at a cosmic or a societal level.

This is part of our On Being Foundations for Being Alive Now series. Four short offerings, more wisdom practice than podcast: life-giving, hope-generating words, ideas and practices that can literally shape your experience of reality — and shape what can become possible.

You can listen to all four "Foundations for Being Alive Now" here: onbeing.org/starting-points/foundations-for-being-alive-now

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Resmaa Menakem — Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence

The On Being Project 2023-08-12 | Resmaa Menakem is a Minneapolis-based therapist and trauma specialist who activates the wisdom of elders, and very new science, about how all of us carry in our bodies the history and traumas behind everything we collapse into the word “race.” In this conversation — one of our most listened to and cited episodes of recent years — Krista draws out his intelligence on changing ourselves at a cellular level and practices towards the transformed reality most of us long to inhabit.

This episode last aired on April 15, 2021.

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Krista Tippett — Seeing the Generative Story of Our Time

The On Being Project 2023-08-06 | We are fluent in the story of our time marked by catastrophe and dysfunction. That is real — but it’s not the whole story of us. There is also an ordinary and abundant unfolding of dignity and care and generosity, of social creativity and evolution and breakthrough. How to make that more vibrant, more visible, and more defining?

This is part of our On Being Foundations for Being Alive Now series. Four short offerings, more wisdom practice than podcast: life-giving, hope-generating words, ideas and practices that can literally shape your experience of reality — and shape what can become possible.

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Ross Gay — Tending Joy and Practicing Delight

The On Being Project 2023-08-05 | There’s a question floating around the world right now: how can we be joyful in a moment like this? To which Ross Gay responds, in word and deed: how can we not be joyful, especially in a moment like this? We practice tenderness and mercy, in part, because to understand that we are all suffering is one quality of what Ross Gay calls “adult joy.”

He lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where he’s a professor of English at Indiana University. His books include the poetry collection, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, and a book of essays, The Book of Delights. He co-founded The Tenderness Project together with Shayla Lawson.

The episode last aired on March 26, 2020.

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“How to Be a Poet” — written and read by Wendell Berry

The On Being Project 2023-08-01 | This poem is featured as an accompaniment to Ellen Davis’ On Being conversation with Krista, “The Art of Being Creatures.” Listen here: onbeing.org/programs/wendell-berry-ellen-davis-the-art-of-being-creatures

Wendell Berry is a farmer, poet, and environmentalist who has published more than 50 books. He lives in Port Royal, Kentucky.

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“The Children’s Moon” — written and read by Marilyn Nelson

The On Being Project 2023-07-31 | Listen to Marilyn Nelson’s On Being conversation with Krista and Pádraig Ó Tuama, “‘So let us pick up the stones over which we stumble, friends, and build altars’” here: onbeing.org/programs/padraig-o-tuama-and-marilyn-nelson-so-let-us-pick-up-the-stones-over-which-we-stumble-friends-and-build-altars

She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of a school teacher and a U.S. serviceman, a member of the last graduating class of Tuskegee Airmen. She is the author or translator of more than 20 books and chapbooks for adults and children. A professor emerita of English at the University of Connecticut, she was Poet Laureate of Connecticut 2001-2006, and founding director of Soul Mountain Retreat, a writers’ colony, 2004-2010.

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“Go to the Limits of Your Longing” — written by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated & read by Joanna Macy

The On Being Project 2023-07-30 | This poem is featured in Joanna Macy’s On Being conversation with Krista, “A Wild Love for the World.” Listen here: onbeing.org/programs/joanna-macy-a-wild-love-for-the-world

You can also listen to Krista’s conversation with Joanna and her co-translator, Anita Barrows, about Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet: “‘What a world you’ve got inside you,’” here: onbeing.org/programs/joanna-macy-and-anita-barrows-what-a-world-youve-got-inside-you

Joanna Macy is a philosopher of ecology and Buddhist teacher, and the root teacher of The Work That Reconnects. She’s the author of many books. Our previous On Being episode with her is “A Wild Love for the World.” That’s also the title of a lovely book of homage to her published in 2020. She has beautifully translated four books of Rilke's writing — Book of Hours: Love Poems to God; In Praise of Mortality; A Year with Rilke; and Letters to a Young Poet — together with psychologist and poet Anita Barrows. She was a voice in the On Being episode, “The Soul in Depression.” Her most recent poetry collection is Testimony.

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“Onto a Vast Plain” — written by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated and read by Joanna Macy

The On Being Project 2023-07-29 | This poem is featured in Joanna Macy’s On Being conversation with Krista, “A Wild Love for the World.” Listen here: onbeing.org/programs/joanna-macy-a-wild-love-for-the-world

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J. Drew Lanham — Pathfinding Through the Improbable

The On Being Project 2023-07-28 | The ornithologist Drew Lanham is lyrical in the languages of science, humans, and birds. His way of seeing and hearing and noticing the present and the history that birds traverse — through our backyards and beyond — is a revelatory way to be present to the world and to life in our time.

He is an Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Master Teacher, and Certified Wildlife Biologist at Clemson University. He is the Poet Laureate of Edgefield County, South Carolina, where he grew up. He is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature and a collection of poetry and meditations, Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts.

The episode last aired on March 24, 2022.

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“Sweet Darkness” — written and read by David Whyte

The On Being Project 2023-07-27 | This poem is featured in David Whyte’s On Being conversation with Krista, “Seeking Language Large Enough.” Listen here: onbeing.org/programs/david-whyte-seeking-language-large-enough

He is the author of many books of poetry and prose, including The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America; Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words; The Bell and the Blackbird; David Whyte: Essentials; and Still Possible.

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Break My Heart — written and read by Joy Harjo

The On Being Project 2023-07-26 | This poem is featured in Joy Harjo’s On Being conversation with Krista, “The Whole of Time.” Listen here: onbeing.org/programs/joy-harjo-the-whole-of-time

She is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation and was the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States. She is the author of nine books of poetry, including An American Sunrise and She Had Some Horses, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior. She has also produced several award-winning music albums, including I Pray for My Enemies.

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“Wild Geese” — written and read by Mary Oliver

The On Being Project 2023-07-25 | This poem is featured in Mary Oliver’s extraordinary On Being conversation with Krista — one of the few in-depth interviews she gave in her lifetime: “I got saved by the beauty of the world.” Listen here: onbeing.org/programs/mary-oliver-i-got-saved-by-the-beauty-of-the-world

She published over 25 books of poetry and prose, including Dream Work, A Thousand Mornings, and A Poetry Handbook. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984 for her book American Primitive. Her final work, Devotions, is a collection of poetry from her more than 50-year career, curated by the poet herself. She died in 2019.

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“Working Together” — written and read by David Whyte

The On Being Project 2023-07-24 | This poem is featured in David Whyte’s On Being conversation with Krista, "Seeking Language Large Enough." Listen here: onbeing.org/programs/david-whyte-seeking-language-large-enough

He is the author of many books of poetry and prose. He holds a degree in Marine Zoology and has worked as a naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands. His books include The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America; Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words; The Bell and the Blackbird; David Whyte: Essentials; and Still Possible.

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“Sanctuary” — written and read by Ada Limón

The On Being Project 2023-07-23 | This poem is featured in Ada Limón's On Being conversation with Krista, "‛To Be Made Whole.’” Listen here: onbeing.org/programs/ada-limon-to-be-made-whole

Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’s written six books of poetry, including The Hurting Kind. Her volume The Carrying won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and Bright Dead Things was a finalist for the National Book Award.

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Arnold Eisen — The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel

The On Being Project 2023-07-22 | A conversation exploring teachings and resonance for now from one of the great rabbis of the last century. Many have been enriched by Abraham Joshua Heschel's theology of "radical amazement," his magnetic fusion of the mystical and the pragmatic, and a poetic language of prayer — teased out in this beautiful conversation with Heschel's student Arnold Eisen, like this: "God, to whom our life can be the spelling of an answer...”

Krista's conversation partner is Heschel student and scholar Arnold Eisen. He is a former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. His books include The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America; Rethinking Modern Judaism; and Conservative Judaism Today and Tomorrow. He also keeps a blog called "On My Mind."

This episode last aired on September 21, 2017.

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“ON ANOTHER PANEL ABOUT CLIMATE... written by Ayisha Siddiqa & read by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

The On Being Project 2023-07-21 | To call the young Pakistani-American poet, Ayisha Siddiqa, a "climate activist" feels too simple. She describes herself as a storyteller and human rights and land defender. She is a climate advisor to the U.N. Secretary General, and was a 2023 TIME Woman of the Year.

The poem is read by the also extraordinary young marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, from her On Being conversation with Krista, What If We Get This Right? Listen here: onbeing.org/programs/ayana-elizabeth-johnson-what-if-we-get-this-right

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Love for a Song — written and read by J. Drew Lanham

The On Being Project 2023-07-17 | This poem is featured in Drew Lanham’s On Being conversation with Krista, “Pathfinding Through the Improbable.” Listen here: onbeing.org/programs/drew-lanham-pathfinding-through-the-improbable

He is an Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Master Teacher, and Certified Wildlife Biologist at Clemson University. He is the Poet Laureate of Edgefield County, South Carolina, where he grew up. He is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature and a collection of poetry and meditations, Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts.

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“Dead Stars” — written and read by Ada Limón

The On Being Project 2023-07-16 | This poem is featured in Ada Limón's On Being conversation with Krista, "To Be Made Whole." Listen here: onbeing.org/programs/ada-limon-to-be-made-whole

She is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’s written six books of poetry, including The Hurting Kind. Her volume The Carrying won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and Bright Dead Things was a finalist for the National Book Award.

ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

THE PODCAST
Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more.

We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

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“The Facts of Life” — written and read by Pádraig Ó Tuama

The On Being Project 2023-07-15 | Listen to Pádraig’s On Being conversation with Krista, “This fantastic argument of being alive,” here: onbeing.org/programs/padraig-o-tuama-this-fantastic-argument-of-being-alive

And listen to his On Being conversation with Krista and poet Marilyn Nelson, “So let us pick up the stones over which we stumble, friends, and build altars,” here: onbeing.org/programs/padraig-o-tuama-and-marilyn-nelson-so-let-us-pick-up-the-stones-over-which-we-stumble-friends-and-build-altars

Pádraig is a poet, conflict mediator, and theologian from Ireland. He presents Poetry Unbound from On Being Studios. Profiled in The New Yorker, with poems in Poetry Ireland, the New England Review, the Harvard Review, and more, his publications include collections of poetry: Readings from the Book of Exile, Sorry for your Troubles, Feed the Beast; an incandescent memoir: In the Shelter; theology: Borders and Belonging (with Glenn Jordan), Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community; and the anthology Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World. padraigotuama.com

Pádraig hosts the On Being Studios podcast Poetry Unbound, which can be listened to here: onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound

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ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

THE PODCAST
Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more.

We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

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Vivek Murthy — A Meditation for Moments of Despair, and to Feel Less Alone

The On Being Project 2023-07-14 | This short meditation is a gift of getting grounded in the knowledge of love inside ourselves, especially when we're not feeling it — an essential step towards the presence we desire to have in the world.

Dr. Vivek Murthy is the 21st Surgeon General of the United States. He also served in this role from 2014 to 2017. He hosts the podcast House Calls with Dr. Vivek Murthy. And he’s the author of Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World.

This meditation originally appeared as a part of Dr. Murthy’s full On Being conversation with Krista, “To Be a Healer,” which aired April 13, 2023.
—Listen on YouTube: youtu.be/bIwnVhuVtbU?si=yN_jEFa2xqnhITnk
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ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

THE PODCAST
Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more. We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

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“A New National Anthem” — written and read by Ada Limón

The On Being Project 2023-07-09 | This poem is featured in Ada Limón's On Being conversation with Krista, "To Be Made Whole". Listen here: onbeing.org/programs/ada-limon-to-be-made-whole

She is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’s written six books of poetry, including The Hurting Kind. Her volume The Carrying won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and Bright Dead Things was a finalist for the National Book Award.

ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

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Remembering Thich Nhat Hanh, Brother Thay

The On Being Project 2023-07-08 | This episode aired on January 27, 2022, shortly after Thich Nhat Hanh’s passing.

The Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, revered Zen master, teacher, and poet, transmuted what he had experienced of chaos and bloodshed in his country and his life into an ability to speak with equal measures directness and compassion to the many conflicts and bewilderments of contemporary life. Krista sat with him for this rare conversation in the early years of this show, and it has touched many. It is astonishing to re-experience the deep, enduring wisdom this monk leaves for our world.

Thich Nhat Hanh first came to the world's attention in the 1960s during the war in his native Vietnam, as he forsook monastic isolation to care for the victims of that war and to work for reconciliation among all the warring parties. Martin Luther King Jr. nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize, and he led the Buddhist delegation to the Paris Peace Talks in 1969. Books among his many beloved include Being Peace and The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation.

ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
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A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

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Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more.

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The Quiet Machine — written and read by Ada Limón

The On Being Project 2023-07-03 | Ada Limón reads her poem “The Quiet Machine".

She is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’s written six books of poetry, including The Hurting Kind. Her volume The Carrying won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and Bright Dead Things was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her original poem will be engraved on NASA's Europa Clipper, which will launch in 2024, and by 2030, be orbiting Jupiter .

ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

THE PODCAST
Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more.

We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

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Krista Tippett: Living the Questions

The On Being Project 2023-07-01 | We live in a world in love with the form of words that is an opinion and the way with words that is an argument. Yet it is a deep truth in life — as in science — that each of us is shaped as much by the quality of the questions we are asking as by the answers we have it in us to give. Precisely at a moment like this, of vast, aching, open questions, and very few answers we can agree on, our questions themselves become powerful tools for living and growing.

This is part of our On Being Foundations for Being Alive Now series. Four short offerings, more wisdom practice than podcast: life-giving, hope-generating words, ideas and practices that can literally shape your experience of reality — and shape what can become possible.

You can listen to all four "Foundations for Being Alive Now" here: onbeing.org/starting-points/foundations-for-being-alive-now

ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
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A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

THE PODCAST
Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more.

We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

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Kate DiCamillo — For the Eight-Year-Old in You

The On Being Project 2023-06-24 | Each and every adult is a former eight-year-old, wide open with yearning and possibility; understanding exactly how troubled the adults around you are, even if they think they are hiding it from you; almost unbearably alert to the world’s wonders and its dangers all at once. And that’s the reason you should listen to this conversation with Kate DiCamillo.

Kate has written many bestselling books, including Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, The Magician’s Elephant, Flora & Ulysses, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Beatryce Prophecy, and the Mercy Watson series. She is a rare two-time winner of the Newbery Medal.

ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

THE PODCAST
Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more.

We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

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Esther Perel — The Erotic Is an Antidote to Death

The On Being Project 2023-06-17 | The psychotherapist @estherperel changed our discourse about sexuality and coupledom. Her deep understanding of “erotic intelligence” feels so interesting as we grapple with emergent dynamics of the human condition writ large — coupled or not, and both intimate and societal.

She has a private couples and family therapy practice in New York. She is executive producer and host of the podcast “Where Should We Begin?” She has also given two @TED talks and is the author of the books “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence” and “The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity.”

Visit our website to listen to the full episode, read the transcript or download the unedited version: onbeing.org/programs/esther-perel-the-erotic-is-an-antidote-to-death

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ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
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A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

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Kimberley Wilson — Whole Body Mental Health

The On Being Project 2023-06-10 | The British psychologist Kimberley Wilson works in the emergent field of whole body mental health, one of the most astonishing frontiers we are on as a species. There is so much actionable knowledge in the tour of the ecosystem of our bodies that she takes us on this hour.

Kimberley Wilson has a private psychotherapy and nutrition practice in central London. She co-hosts the BBC Radio 4 podcast Made of Stronger Stuff and is the author of How to Build a Healthy Brain.

ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT

An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time

The Podcast

Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more.

In our newest season: biomimicry and the science of awe; spiritual contrarianism and social creativity; pause and poetry and more towards stretching into this world ahead with dignity, wisdom — and joy.

We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.

We are animated by humanity’s ancient questions, newly alive in this century: What does it mean to be human, how do we want to live, and who will we be to each other?

On Being has won the highest honors in broadcasting, the Internet, and podcasting and has been named a best podcast by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, the Webbys, iHeart Radio — with more than 450 million downloads.

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