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Joseph Goldstein
Remembering that life is a process of change helps us cope with the unexpected.
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Contemplation
David Whyte
Learn what it means to be truly honest — with oneself and the world.
Lesson
Kieran Setiya
Understand how to grapple with real loss.
Meditation
Mark Coleman
Notice the arising, changing, and passing of sensation, sound, and thought.
Explore how heartbreak colors, inhabits, and magnifies each and every day.
Robert Waldinger
Reduce emotional isolation by accepting your feelings and cultivating connection.
Reflect on how loneliness is "the foundation of belonging."
Jitindriyā
Hold confusion and sorrow with kindness and care.
Learn how we are "something for the world to run up against and rub up against."
Conversation
Peter Fenner, Sam Harris
Sam and Peter discuss nonduality, degrees of awakening, emotion, teaching, and simplicity.
See how "what haunts us is always something that seeks its own disappearance."
David Whyte, Sam Harris
Sam and David discuss David’s poems “Friendship,” “Honesty,” “Ambition,” and “Alone.”
Recognize how aloneness is an invitation to depth — and an imminent threat.
Discover how philosophy is not "idle speculation" but a path to living well.
See how maturity is the ability to live fully and equally in multiple contexts.
Qa
Jack Kornfield, Sam Harris
Does the project of meditation have anything to do with perfecting the human personality?
Feel how rest is the essence of giving and receiving.
Alan Watts
What we call “significant” often does not signify anything.
Lean into vulnerability and learn how to take the first step.
Sam Harris
Examine the role of personal responsibility in the absence of free will.
Understand why disappointment is an inescapable but necessary part of life.
Sam dismantles the concept of free will and invites you to join.
Reflect on how pain immediately acquaints us with "existence itself."
Jayasāra
Text by Thich Nhat Hanh. Savor each moment with gratitude, reverence, and love.
See how nostalgia tells us we are in the presence of imminent revelation.
What would you say to someone who might feel a fundamental incapacity to feel love for themselves?
Examine how denial is the crossroads between perception and readiness.
William B. Irvine
Look for silver linings in all of life's setbacks to increase your resilience.
See how help is an absolute necessity — and something we want to do without.
Intro
Annaka Harris
Annaka explains her perspective on metta practice, and offers guidance.
Discover how hiding is an act of freedom from the misunderstanding of others.
Extend the practice to someone you love, and consciously wish them happiness.
Explore how joy is the raw engagement with the passing seasonality of existence.
Sink into the feeling of loving-kindness while wishing wellness toward another.
Examine how anger might be the deepest form of care.
Talk
Feel how memory creates a continual but almost untouchable now.
Learn how to not lose connection with the present moment during stressful times.
Understand the direct and forceful questions solace asks of us.
Discover how hope can give us "the courage to conceive alternatives."
See how gratitude functions, and points us toward "the underlying gift of life."
Learn how to be less anxious about death by fully enjoying life in the present.
See why we must fully experience regret before we focus on the future.
Explore an age-old question: "What is the meaning of it all?"
Notice how despair takes us in when we have nowhere else to go.
James Low
Discover the freedom of simply staying with the sensations of life.
Discover how shadow "makes a presence of absence."
Tim Pychyl
Research shows it undermines our performance, our well-being, and even our health.
Get a new view of procrastination—and discover that it's not what it seems.
Confront the scope of human misery with compassion and steadfastness.
Discover why the urge to run away is "an essence of being human."
Explore the midlife crisis—and learn how to "live in the halo of the present."
Reflect on what it means to love unconditionally—and how it may not be possible.
When we get or lose something we value, we can emotionally react—or calmly respond.
Discover why being besieged is "as much a privilege as it is a burden."
Adyashanti
"By completely embracing limitation, you become free within it."
Learn what it means to "come to ground"—and why it's a courageous act.
Learn about one's experience with loss and grief.
Frank Ostaseski, Sam Harris
Sam and Frank discuss mortality, bereavement, secular rituals, psychedelics, and more.
Michael Easter
Pondering death can inspire us to live with more presence and empathy.
When setbacks occur, Stoics look for opportunity, not blame.
Tom Lutz
Good conversation comes from not knowing what the other person's going to say.
Jane Hirshfield, Sam Harris
Jane reads her poem "It Was Like This: You Were Happy."
Sam and Jane discuss Jane’s meditation practice and her poems, five of which she recites.
Begin to gracefully accept your own feelings, and those you have about others.
Alternatives to religious memorials must honor our sense of connection to each other.
An examination of how we meet endings in life.
Nikki Mirghafori, Sam Harris
Sam and Nikki discuss Nikki’s precarious childhood, nirvana, compassion, ease, and more.
Jason Rosenthal, Miles Rosenthal, Sam Harris
Sam, Jason, and Miles discuss the life of Amy Rosenthal, the grieving process, and more.
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Adversity doesn’t hinder growth, but is the very means by which we build strength.
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