In this Moments of Meaning podcast, Rainn Wilson talks about the brief Baha'i prayer that got him through some of his life’s toughest times. 

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Moments of Meaning is presented by Sean Hinton, mixed by Jamey Heath, and produced by the team at BahaiTeachings.org.

Music:

• Cello by Elika Mahony from the song The Hallowed Beauty.
• Yang Qin by Jin R from the album Meditations Of The Spirit.

In this episode, Radiance Talley shares her poetry, insights, and reflections about how practicing patience helped her both find beauty in pain and create beauty from pain.

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Moments of Meaning is presented by Sean Hinton, mixed by Jamey Heath, and produced by the team at BahaiTeachings.org.

Music:

• Cello by Elika Mahony from the song The Hallowed Beauty.
• Yang Qin by Jin R from the album Meditations Of The Spirit.

In this episode of the Moments of Meaning podcast, we speak with author and Baha'i administrator Kenneth Bowers about his early Baha'i experiences growing up in the segregated American South.

Join us as we explore the implications of what it really means to regard every member of the human race as a member of your family.

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Moments of Meaning is presented by Sean Hinton, mixed by Jamey Heath, and produced by the team at BahaiTeachings.org.

Music:

• Cello by Elika Mahony from the song The Hallowed Beauty.
• Yang Qin by Jin R from the album Meditations Of The Spirit.

In this Moments of Meaning podcast, we talk to Adam Robarts, a Baha’i who runs an architectural and engineering firm in China, about a powerful dream involving his father and a massive mirror. 

The mirror, he would later learn, has tremendous resonance and meaning in the Baha’i writings.

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Moments of Meaning is presented by Sean Hinton, mixed by Jamey Heath, and produced by the team at BahaiTeachings.org.

Music:

• Cello by Elika Mahony from the song The Hallowed Beauty.
• Yang Qin by Jin R from the album Meditations Of The Spirit.

Music, the Baha'i teachings assert, is “the food of the soul and the spirit.” In this episode, we explore that spiritual concept with Atieno Mboya, the African Baha'i attorney and legal scholar.

Atieno grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, has lived all over the world, and is an academic in the field of international and environmental law. As a Baha'i and a mother, she practices a rigorous professional discipline and raises her children conscientiously – and one of the things she loves, music, helps her do both. She first learned to sing the songs of the spirit as an elementary school student in a Catholic school, and has continued to express her joy with music in her journey as a Baha'i.

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Moments of Meaning is presented by Sean Hinton, mixed by Jamey Heath, and produced by the team at BahaiTeachings.org.

Music:

• Cello by Elika Mahony from the song The Hallowed Beauty.
• Yang Qin by Jin R from the album Meditations Of The Spirit.

One Baha'i quotation, says our Moments of Meaning guest Iko Congo, changed his life. When he truly meditated on its meaning, he resolved to move to another country solely to serve humanity.

In this episode of the Moments of Meaning podcast, Portuguese-born management consultant Iko Congo recounts how he meditated on and prayed about this powerful quotation from the writings of Abdu’l-Baha, and how it generated enormous inspiration and change.

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Moments of Meaning is presented by Sean Hinton, mixed by Jamey Heath, and produced by the team at BahaiTeachings.org.

Music:

• Cello by Elika Mahony from the song The Hallowed Beauty.
• Yang Qin by Jin R from the album Meditations Of The Spirit.

Have you ever looked up at the sky, and wondered how the universe evolved? That sense of wonder, says our Moments of Meaning guest Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, defines our need for transcendence. 

In this episode of the Moments of Meaning podcast, Professor Varga-Khadem, a cognitive neuroscientist and a Baha'i, reveals how the Baha'i teachings led her on a journey of inner discovery that culminated in her fascinating, insightful profession – and her lifelong interest in discovering and studying the spiritual capacities we human beings all possess.

Please listen here as Professor Varga-Khadem explains her moment of meaning and what it has meant for her inner and outer life.

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Moments of Meaning is presented by Sean Hinton, mixed and edited by Jamey Heath, and produced by the team at BahaiTeachings.org.

Music:

• Cello by Elika Mahony from the song The Hallowed Beauty.
• Yang Qin by Jin R from the album Meditations Of The Spirit.

What does it really mean to be generous? A journey in a foreign country and the words of the Baha’i writings completely redefined the word for Lori Noguchi.

In this episode of “Moments of Meaning,” Sean Hinton speaks to Lori Noguchi. Born in the United States, she has lived and worked most of her life in greater China, and today she lives and works in Israel as an academic and development professional in the non-profit sector.

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Moments of Meaning is presented by Sean Hinton, mixed and edited by Jamey Heath, and produced by the team at BahaiTeachings.org.

Music:

• Cello by Elika Mahony from the song The Hallowed Beauty.
• Yang Qin by Jin R from the album Meditations Of The Spirit.

In this episode of “Moments of Meaning,” Sean Hinton speaks to Peter Murphy, a poet, writer and teacher. Born in Wales, he grew up in New York City and now lives in Atlantic City, in the United States.

Peter shares how a simple phrase changed the focus of his life — leading him out of alcoholism and into a life of service to his community.

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Moments of Meaning is presented by Sean Hinton, mixed and edited by Jamey Heath, and produced by the team at BahaiTeachings.org.

Music:

• Cello by Elika Mahony from the song The Hallowed Beauty.
• Yang Qin by Jin R from the album Meditations Of The Spirit.

What effect do the words of the world’s divine educators have on our lives? “Moments of Meaning” explores a range of answers to that question through 9 conversations with guests from around the globe.

Inspired by Baha’u’llah’s words, “Immerse yourselves in the ocean of My words that ye may unravel its secrets, and discover all the pearls of wisdom that lie hid in its depths,” host Sean Hinton sought to share stories about the moments when people discover these pearls, and how they change their lives.

Through sincere conversation, heartfelt storytelling, and the words of some of the Baha’i Faith’s central figures, season 1 of “Moments of Meaning” offered a window into the lives of nine guests, from Botswana, to England, to the United States.

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• Season 1 Prayers and Writings

Moments of Meaning is presented by Sean Hinton, mixed and edited by Jamey Heath, and produced by the team at BahaiTeachings.org.

Music:

• Cello by Elika Mahony from the song The Hallowed Beauty.
• Yang Qin by Jin R from the album Meditations Of The Spirit.