January 2013
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“O Allâh, place light in my heart, light in my tongue, light in my hearing, light...”
– Hussein Rashid has posted several lovely prayers for the new year: two from the Prophet Muhammad and one by the author himself. The one above is especially lovely during the depths of winter here in North America. (via trentgilliss)
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Prakash Utsav: Sikhs Celebrate the Birthday of...
by Susan Leem, associate producer
Prakash Utsav birthday celebrations in Sikh temple for Guru Gobind Singh. (photo: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images)
The number of Sikhs in the world is approaching 20 million adherents. Most live in India, and many are settling in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Italy (where they were recently credited with saving Italy’s struggling dairy...
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Anonymous asked: Can someone at On Being recommend a good book to start reading the works of Teilhard de Chardin? I was transfixed by this show! Thank you!
lordmaka asked: Hello!I seem to have overlooked (and so have not liked or reblogged it-searched my entire likes list for it) some quote, talking about a woman, who gets a visit from her writing professor, who finds some small piece of paper taper to her desk, he reads it and says it is the most profound piece of poetry he's read in some time, and then she replies it's from a disco record, the lyrics...
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“Recently I heard a wonderful program on National Public Radio about Rabbi...”
– —John Patrick Egelhof, lead FBI agent of the Red Lake High School massacre, from his excellent if not challenging commentary in the Star Tribune. Read it.
The NPR program to which Mr. Egelhof is referring is On Being with Krista Tippett, which is the radio program I’ve edited and produced for the...
December 2012
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Seinfeld on How to Tell a Joke
From our senior editor Trent Gilliss’ Tumblr:
“In my world, the wronger something feels the righter it is. So too waste this much time on something this stupid… that felt good to me. “
A superb five-minute short on how Jerry Seinfeld writes a joke from The New York Times.
Seinfeld’s take on wasting time might just be the polar opposite advice given by Jon Kabat-Zinn in our...
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Will Teilhard de Chardin Be Fully Embraced by the... →
From our senior editor Trent Gilliss’ Tumblr:
I moderate the comments for the weekly shows at On Being for many reasons: staying in touch with our listeners’ responses and a lack of human resources for online work, to name two. In response to our one-hour production on French Jesuit theologian and paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin, we received this comment from “Father Robert I…”this past...
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“Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we...”
– —Daniel Goleman, from Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
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