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- Oliver Sacks on Nature’s Beauty as a Gateway into Deep Time and a Lens on the Interconnectedness of the Universe
Thank you, Brain Pickings.
https://archive.org/download/2018072207.40.44/2018-07-22%2007.40.44.oggShort Stories is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://brainbeing.wordpress.com/
7 min - Kahlil Gibran on the Courage to Weather the Uncertainties of Love
Thank you, Brain Pickings.
https://archive.org/download/2018072118.12.45/2018-07-21%2018.12.45.oggShort Stories is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://brainbeing.wordpress.com/
7 min - The news is not the full story of our time
Thank you, On Being.
https://archive.org/download/2018072117.48.32/2018-07-21%2017.48.32.oggShort Stories is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://brainbeing.wordpress.com/
5 min - What borders are really about, and what we do with them; we are a quilt; why justice isn’t enough
You can read the story yourself here.
https://archive.org/download/SoundRecord20180717135541/SoundRecord-2018-07-17-13-55-41.wavShort Stories is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://brainbeing.wordpress.com/
4 min - Bertrand Russell on what makes a fulfilling life, an illustrated celebration of the many meanings and manifestations of love, an immigrant’s tale
Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.” Appreciation to Brain Pickings.
https://archive.org/download/russel-brainpickings/russel-brainpickings.mp3Short Stories is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://brainbeing.wordpress.com/
5 min - Erich Fromm on Spontaneity as the Wellspring of Individuality, Creativity, and Love
“Spontaneous activity is the one way in which man can overcome the terror of aloneness… for in the spontaneous realization of the self man unites himself anew with the world — with man, nature, and himself.”
In appreciation of Brain Pickings.
http://shoutengine.com/ShortStories/ShortStories-0026-erich-fromm-on-spontaneity-as-the-wellspring-of-in-58430.mp3Short Stories is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://brainbeing.wordpress.com/
0 min - “Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife” by Maria Popova
Where the hard edge of physics meets the vulnerable metaphysics of the human heart.
In appreciation of Brain Pickings.
http://shoutengine.com/ShortStories/ShortStories-0025-love-after-life-nobel-winning-physicist-richard-44891.mp3Short Stories is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://brainbeing.wordpress.com/
0 min - “The Trouble with ‘Finding Yourself’” by Maria Popova
This is a great summary of what it means to find yourself and what role poetry plays inside this find. You can read the article on Brain Pickings.
http://shoutengine.com/ShortStories/ShortStories-0024-the-trouble-with-finding-yourself-by-maria-pop-37486.mp3Short Stories is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://brainbeing.wordpress.com/
0 min - “The Doom and Glory of Knowing Who You Are” by Maria Popova
An exploration of the role of an artist perceived by James Baldwin.
Read the story here.
http://shoutengine.com/ShortStories/ShortStories-0023-the-doom-and-glory-of-knowing-who-you-are-by-mar-36942.mp3Short Stories is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://brainbeing.wordpress.com/
0 min - “The Poetics of Protest and Prayer” by Maria Popova
If we want to hear our voice, we must raise or lower it.
You can read the story online.
http://shoutengine.com/ShortStories/ShortStories-0022-the-poetics-of-protest-and-prayer-by-maria-popov-36595.mp3Short Stories is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://brainbeing.wordpress.com/
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Short stories from On Being, Brain Pickings and others.
Short Stories is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://brainbeing.wordpress.com/