“Imagine yourself alone on this planet. Would anything be the same?” Jennifer Michael Hecht is a poet, philosopher, and historian who wants to change the way we talk to ourselves and each other about suicide and staying alive — starting with her insistence that we believe each other into being. “Sometimes when you can’t see what’s important about you, other people can.”
Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, Doubt: A History, and Who Said.
Find the transcript at onbeing.org.
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The Universe Participates in the Mystery of God | Guy Consolmagno and George Coyne
I Feel, Therefore I Am | Eve Ensler
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We Choose Our Own Tribes | Seth Godin
Spirituality Is Enfolded Into the Act of Living | Sylvia Boorstein
The Good in the Other, the Doubt in Ourselves | Frances Kissling
The Inner World Is a Great, Undiscovered Terrain | Pico Iyer
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The Paradox of Suffering and Love | Kate Braestrup
Enriched by Difference | Jonathan Sacks
The Hidden Hand of the Equations | Brian Greene
The Desire to Know Each Other | Elizabeth Alexander
Compassion for Our Bodies | Matthew Sanford
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Courage Is Born from Struggle | Brené Brown
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