Book of the Day

Novels by Ben Reeves and Matt Haig look at life through the eyes of death (literally)

I really believe that just thinking about death that little bit more, especially for a story where we're safe, um it can just enrich every single day because you know in the back of your mind that's coming.

Hidden Brain

Waking Up Your Spiritual Brain: Part 1

Most of us think of spirituality as something that happens when we have extraordinary experiences — when we see something beautiful, hear a piece of music that moves us to tears, or find ourselves confronted with the vastness of the universe. But Andrew says the research suggests something different: that spiritual experiences are available to all of us, and that we can cultivate them through intentional practice.

EconTalk

Golfing Alone (with Gary Belsky)

No rush, no noise, no one else on the golf course: solo golf is an entirely different game, offering physical, mental, and spiritual benefits that playing with others can't.

TED

Joy Will Find You — If You Let It | David Larbi | TED

I don't think that it's naive at all to look for joy in the everyday. In fact, if I'm ever to be truly content, it seems to me to be the only way.

Wild Card

Ada Limón talks forgiveness, ghosts and fertility on 'Wild Card'

I think not only in my life and in my heart, I am always trying to remind myself that I am here. Not just on this planet, but in this moment.

Daily Stoic

A Month of the BEST Lessons from Marcus Aurelius

You always have the power to have no opinion. Things are not asking to be judged by you. Don't turn this into something. The fewer opinions you have, the fewer judgments you make, the more you're able to just leave things as they are, the happier you will be, the more productive you will be, the more focused you will be, and the easier you will be to get along with.

Fresh Air

Humorist Annabelle Gurwitch faces stage 4 cancer, finds ‘unexpected joys’

I can't go on. I'll go on. And I really did not know how I could go from I can't go on to I'll go on. And that's when I started thinking about this idea of devoting myself to everyday joys or like cultivating these tiny victories, like just having a different metric for what would make me happy or also how I could stay engaged in life?

TED Radio Hour

Curious stories of coexistence

And so I can be on one side of the river looking across the river, watching a family of otters do its thing through binoculars or a camera. And they're absolutely unfazed.

EconTalk

The Power of Introverts (with Susan Cain)

She explains why introversion isn't the same thing as shyness and she speaks of the many benefits of solitude and silent contemplation.