The 3 Best Becoming Wise Podcast Episodes
1) Mapping Meaning in a Digital Age | Maria Popova
“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 ...Show More
2) The Daily Opportunity in Randomness | Leonard Mlodinow
The physicist Leonard Mlodinow changes how we think about the agency we have in shaping our own destinies. As a scientist, he works with principles like Brownian motion, by which Einstein helped verif...Show More
3) We Are the Beloved Community | John Lewis
“I discovered that you have to have this sense of faith that what you’re moving toward is already done.” Civil rights leader John Lewis on living as if the “beloved community” were already our reality...Show More
4) What did you love? What would you like to hear?
Season two of Becoming Wise is a wrap! We’re so grateful you joined us for these months of reflection and recentering. Before we go away to work on our next season, we’d love to hear from you. What di...Show More
5) Releasing Anger as an Act of Self-Compassion | Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman
The last episode of season 2. Robert Thurman and Sharon Salzberg are icons of American Buddhism, and they are joyful, longtime friends. They challenge us to reframe our anger by seeing love for our en...Show More
6) Healing Through Story | Desmond Tutu
The last episode of season 2. Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of our wisest models on the territory of reckoning with past wrongs that infuse and haunt the present. In the 1990s, he helped galvanize So...Show More
7) The Inner Life of Social Change | Ruby Sales
Public theologian Ruby Sales opens up what it was like to be a teenage participant in the civil rights movement — including the impatience she had with religion and how she circled back, through her e...Show More
8) Empathy Rooted in Action | Terry Tempest Williams
Naturalist Terry Tempest Williams brings meaning and direction to the grief around ecological loss and climate change. She’s a self-described “citizen writer” rooted in the American West, and she draw...Show More
9) Who We’re Called to Become | James Martin
Father James Martin is a beloved Jesuit writer and teacher who says desire ultimately is not selfish — and instead a path to understanding our callings in life. He says everyone has a vocation, not ju...Show More
10) Happiness Is Practice, Not Pleasure | Matthieu Ricard
Matthieu Ricard is helping us redefine happiness in a culture convinced that it’s a passive experience. The French-born Tibetan Buddhist monk reframes happiness not as pleasure but as practice that re...Show More