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In 1972, Maribouche writes, I was a 30-year-old American traveling in India with the smell of incense in my hair and mantras repeating in my ears.

Back then, if you had told me that I would someday be training employees of corporate America to apply contemplative practices to help them become more successful, I would have said you'd been standing too long in India's hot, noonday sun.

Yet as soon as Maribouche returned to the U.S. in 1973, she started a company called Illuminations and was featured alongside a young Steve Jobs in Fortune magazine.

More recently, she helped create Google's wildly popular employee program, Search Inside Yourself. Maribouche is called in to work with educators and judges and social activists and soldiers.

Her Odyssey from India to Now tells a defining narrative of our time and it's not just a story of tools that help us be more successful.

It's a rediscovery and reclaiming of contemplation in many forms and many traditions in the secular thick of modern life.

In the beginning, you couldn't ever say what the environmental leaders would call the L word and the L word was love.

And it's really when someone's heart opens that things really change.

I have been more and more willing to take the risk to offer those practices, even in just very secular working situations recently than I used to be, because people really want to be loved and turn out.

And it always edges on sounding like a home mark card, but I have found it to be very powerful if you can find the right way to do it.

I'm Christa Tippett and this is on Beeing. Maribouche is co-founder and former director of the Center for Contemplative Mind and Society.

She's just written a new book together with Ram Das walking each other home, conversations on loving and dying. We spoke in 2015.

So I wonder how would you start to describe what the spiritual background of your childhood of your life, your early life?

Well, my early life, I was brought up Catholic and when I was seven, my father left and my mother had to go to work.

And this is right after the war, I have to say, the second world war.

It used to be the war.

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