On Being Public Radio Spirituality Programs

In this episode of On Being, host Krista Tippett interviews Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh about his ideas on mindfulness and their application towards creating compassion and peace.

One of today's most influential spiritual teachers shares his youthful experience of depression and despair — suffering that led him to his own spiritual breakthrough, and ultimately, freedom and peace of mind.

What if the first question we asked on a date were, "How are you crazy? I'm crazy like this"? Philosopher and writer Alain de Botton's essay "Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person" was one of the most-read articles in The New York Times in recent years.

Nearly ten million Americans are diagnosed with clinical depression. As a society, we're increasingly aware of the many faces of depression, and we've become conversant in the language of psychological analysis of depression and medical treatment for it.

Present-day relevance of 20th century theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, an influential, boundary-crossing voice in American public life.

Americans are religious and non-religious, devout and irreverent.

Part one of this series takes Einstein's science as a starting point for exploring the great physicist's perspective on ideas such as mystery, eternity, and the mind of God.

Kingsolver describes an adventure her family undertook to spend one year eating primarily what they could grow or raise themselves.

On Being is a spacious conversation — and an evolving media space — about the big questions at the center of human life, from the boldest new science of the human brain to the most ancient traditions of the human spirit.

The 13th-century Muslim mystic and poet Rumi has long shaped Muslims around the world and has now become popular in the West.