npr • on being :: Joanna Macy

ancestors' wisdom ~ show up and love this world ~ solidarity

boss :: s2e4 :: redemption

can't fix everything ~ some things are best left broken ~ wise and bitter words

Through the Wormhole :: s3e10 :: Leonard Nimoy

did god invent us? ~ why do we always ask why? ~ did we invent god?

npr • on being :: Gordon Hempton

endangered silence ~ it's not the absence of sound ~ it's absence of NOISE 
meet gordon hempton ~ acoustic ecologist ~ silence activist
tonal quality ~ i never REALLY listened ~ think-tank of the soul
poetics of space ~ professional listener ~ last quiet place
don't anticipate ~ there's no purpose but great joy ~ silence feeds our soul 
 just take it ALL in ~ who we are is what we hear ~ one square inch dot org

npr • on being :: Christian Wiman

imagination ~ keeps opening me up to ~ eccentric heavens

wisdom of thomas merton

solitude is the ~ deepening of the present ~ must look NOW to find

wisdom of thomas merton

"the good soil of ~ freedom, spontaneity ~ and love" said merton

DMT: The Spirit Molecule

for reconnection ~ we need the help of the plants ~ respect medicines

return of scholarly psychedelics :: the spirit molecule

DMT's purpose ~ experience - deliver ~ our full potential  

beyond religions

question everything ~ rise above fear, ignorance ~ know purpose, be free

when he tipped the tables, what were they doing?

earthquakes triggered by ~ sinners who won't mend their ways ?! ~ who DID jesus hate?

religiosity • tim tebow for example

keep it to yourself ~ we need a separation ~ of church and football

npr • on being :: Mario Livio

passion for science ~ our expanding universe ~ core sense of wonder

seems passé to say

avoid becoming ~ hostage to orthodoxy ~ bart giamatti

npr • on being

buddhist scientist ~ that is what i could become! ~ monk philosopher

that magnificent madman

teacher and preacher ~ that magnificent madman ~ pastor jesus christ

reminder (published 1855)

robert browning: our ~ reach SHOULD exceed our grasp, or ~ what's a heaven for?

too damn heartless and familiar

stalinist mindset ~ there are but two opinions ~ mine and the wrong one

npr • on being

cardinal of choice ~ speak truth with humility ~ that's frances kissling

npr • on being

change at the margins ~ there is good in 'the other' ~ learning to listen