Have you ever felt like you’re talking, but nobody is listening? Here’s Julian Treasure to help you fix that. As the sound expert demonstrates some useful vocal exercises and shares tips on how to speak with empathy, he offers his vision for a sonorous world of listening and understanding. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast… Read more »

Sheryl WuDunn explains the complex worlds of charitable giving, volunteering, and altruism. WuDunn is the co-author of A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunities (http://goo.gl/vKnR64). Read more at BigThink.com: http://goo.gl/KOD2rd Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink

“Because we can imagine, we are free.” – Jean-Paul Sartre Learn More: The Imaginary Foundation http://www.imaginaryfoundation.com “The Imaginary Foundation is a think tank from Switzerland that does experimental research on new ways of thinking and the power of the imagination.” Jean-Paul Sartre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pau… “He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused it,… Read more »

Never miss a talk! SUBSCRIBE to the TEDx channel: http://bit.ly/1FAg8hB Jon is a farmer from northeastern Thailand. He founded the Pun Pun Center for Self-reliance, an organic farm outside Chiang Mai, with his wife Peggy Reents in 2003. Pun Pun doubles as a center for sustainable living and seed production, aiming to bring indigenous and… Read more »

Letting go is a recurrent theme of many spiritual traditions. In this clip from his Burning Man interview, Peter Russell reframes letting go as “letting in” and “letting be”. See also – http://www.facebook.com/PeterRussellA… and The Spirit of Now – http://www.peterrussell.com/

The ego is not to be defeated or eradicated. It is there it to help us. We need to change our relationship to it. Audio download: http://bit.ly/14M5H4C http://www.peterrussell.com http://facebook/PeterRussellAuthor

http://www.ted.com In our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman, is our first step toward Buddha nature. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk… Read more »

Benedictine Monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, a leader in interfaith dialogues, shares his thoughts on love and forgiveness in his opening address to the Fetzer Institute’s “Global Gathering: A Pilgrimage of Love and Forgiveness” in Assisi, Italy on Sept. 19, 2012.

The one thing all humans have in common is that each of us wants to be happy, says Brother David Steindl-Rast, a monk and interfaith scholar. And happiness, he suggests, is born from gratitude. An inspiring lesson in slowing down, looking where you’re going, and above all, being grateful. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast… Read more »

“In the cathedral of the wild, we get to see the best parts of ourselves reflected back to us.” Boyd Varty, a wildlife activist, shares stories of animals, humans and their interrelatedness, or “ubuntu” — defined as, “I am, because of you.” And he dedicates the talk to South African leader Nelson Mandela, the human… Read more »