Being Willed by the Truth - Kabir Helminksi
36:24 min
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Members and Veterans of the US Armed Forces have unacceptably high suicide rates. Why? It’s not the combat experience like one would suggest, but a much more complex issue that needs to be talked about.
At her SAND 2018 appearance, Karen Johnson, co-founder of the Diamond Approach, reminds us that “human” comes from humus, the earth, and “being” is what we feel meaningless without. We feel both these to be real, to be who we are.
Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the hardships of others. Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of struggle, while also spinning tales of the courageous people he’s met in the years since.
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Within each of us are two selves, suggests David Brooks in this meditative short talk: the self who craves success, who builds a résumé, and the self who seeks connection, community, love—the values that make for a great eulogy. Can we balance these two selves? Perhaps, once we know them both.