July 2011
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“A voice said, ‘There he is — that one, you see, with the flowers.’ I...”
– —Ellen Graf, on meeting her husband in China for the first time.
This quotation is excerpted from her memoir The Natural Laws of Good Luck, which was just released in paperback.
~Susan Leem, associate producer
June 2011
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Anonymous asked: For a few years, my son and I have been practicing yoga as a means of quieting our noisy minds. I personally have had limited success with this, and although many of the asanas are meditative, I have not actually tried formal meditation techniques. I am interested in exploring this further, and wonder if anyone can suggest a good reference for a beginner. I am especially interested in one which...
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“You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn’t...”
– —New York State Senator Roy McDonald
The Republican politician said this statement to reporters about his decision to support same-sex marriage legislation. McDonald was the 31st senator to support the Marriage Equality Act. McDonald is a Vietnam veteran and former steelworker. As a politician,...
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“Dear Friends, I just launched http://t.co/fVHpS9y Praised be our Lord Jesus...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, who posted his very first tweet on @news_va_en, the Vatican’s Twitter account.
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“I just figured if I liked a song, it was mine.”
– —Jazz vocalist Nancy Wilson delivers a humdinger of a line on this week’s American Routes.
~reblogged by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Anonymous asked: Good Meditaion Downloads, please.
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Anonymous asked: Hello,
I appreciate that there is an anonymous option for posting. I wonder though if every question is posted or if there is a way to ask something only for your (and your staff's) consideration. It is a question having to deal with an emerging effort in one community to bring the practice of mindfulness into the public education system.
Be well,
Kendall
I appreciate that there is an anonymous option for posting. I wonder though if every question is posted or if there is a way to ask something only for your (and your staff's) consideration. It is a question having to deal with an emerging effort in one community to bring the practice of mindfulness into the public education system.
Be well,
Kendall
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Transformation Is Compatible with the Heart of...
by Krista Tippett, host
Rich, a U.S. soldier who fought in Iraq, is hooked up to electrodes that monitor his brain activity while in Richard Davidson’s lab. (photo courtesy of “Free the Mind”)
I still remember when I began to hear about Richard Davidson’s work. More to the point, I remember the warmth and excitement with which the immunologist Esther Sternberg first told...
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Do You Know the Way to Sacromonte?
by Taline Voskeritchian, guest contributor, with photos by Tamar Salibian
The road may be — and almost always is — made of our footsteps, as Antonio Machado said, but there are places in the world, sacred sites, where arrival is at least equal to the effort of getting there, where our beginnings and our ends do actually know each other. The Camino du Sacromonte, which we recently climbed all...
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Danish Filmmaker Spends Year in Wisconsin...
by Nancy Rosenbaum, producer
For the past year, Danish filmmaker Phie Ambo has been trailing neuroscientist Richard Davidson at his lab in Madison, Wisconsin. Best known for studying the brains of Tibetan Buddhist monks, Davidson’s research has shown that meditation can literally change the brain.
He’s the featured guest in our show titled “Investigating Healthy Minds.”...
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Will Muslim Women Feel at Home in Their Home...
by Anna Mansson McGinty, special contributor
Muslim men and women stroll down the Champs-Élysées in Paris. (photo: Archibald Ballantine/Flickr, cc by 2.0)
“Of course, I’m at home (laughter). Who else’s (country) am I in? I feel at home. I have my family here, we live, we eat, we cry, we laugh, we suffer, we don’t suffer. Some people are pleasant, some insult us. But truthfully, the day...
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