You listen to OnBeing, you love digging for deeper meaning.

I think of NPR's Invisibility as a kindred podcast to ours,

exploring the invisible forces shaping human behavior.

And for the next few weeks, we're excited to share sneak previews

from their terrific new season.

You can hear Invisibility on NPR1 or wherever you get your podcasts.

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helping build the Spiritual Foundation for a loving world.

Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding principle

and animating force for our lives.

A powerful love that helps us live in sacred relationship with ourselves,

others, and the natural world.

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Very rarely do you hear anyone say they write things down and feel worse.

It's an act that helps you, preserves you,

energizes you in the very doing of it.

You are living in a poem.

This is how the poet Naomi Shehab-Nai sees the world.

And she teaches how this way of being and writing is possible.

She has engaged the real world power of words

since her upbringing between her father's Palestinian homeland

and Ferguson, Missouri, near where her American mother grew up.

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