Category: People Who Inspire
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School for Compassion
$2.95 Add to cartStewart Brand, founder and publisher of “The Whole Earth” catalogue, sets forth the vision behind his “school for compassionate skills” designed to teach the fine art of “uncommon courtesy” and being a “do-gooder.”
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Sid Caesar
$2.95 Add to cartWe visit one of television’s first superstars, comedian Sid Caesar, who battled back from addiction and physical illness by learning how to appreciate and enjoy.
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Surviving Auschwitz through Faith
$2.95 Add to cartViktor Frankl in Vienna tells how, as a Jewish psychiatrist, he was imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
$0.00 Add to cartWe remember Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hahn, a best-selling author, Zen master and peacemaker, who taught part-time in the U.S. In this interview, he described lessons he learned about peacemaking that resulted from the Vietnam war. Hanh died in 2022 at age 95.
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Tibetan Truths
$3.95 Add to cartHis Holiness the Dalai Lama is heard on Part 1 in a dialogue recorded at Harvard University.
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Tree-Lined Streets
$0.00 Add to cartCharlie Starbuck, an affable tax attorney, single-handedly has increased the “canopy” of San Francisco by planting more than 7,500 trees, as part of the movement known as Friends of the Urban Forest.
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Tucker Stilley
$0.00 Add to cartWhen a gifted artist and media producer near Los Angeles is stricken with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), a community of friends comes together to support him as he develops ingenious ways to continue creating his art work, even without the use of his limbs.
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The UN’s Optimist in Residence
$2.95 Add to cartRobert Muller, Assistant Secretary General of the UN, radiates faith and positive thinking as the only antidote to bleakness in our world.
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The Unabomber’s Brother
$3.95 Add to cartSocial worker David Kaczynski tells how he reached the horrible conclusion that his older brother Ted was the Unabomber and felt obliged to notify authorities, even though it could lead to a death sentence for his brother.
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Unconditional Love
$2.95 Add to cartExploring a fascinating philosophy of community and spiritual service, this documentary visits a hospice where all staff are volunteers and all patients receive care free of charge.
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Visionaries
$2.95 Add to cartA television filmmaker who travels the world in search of heroic organizations shares audio excerpts of his journey and describes how he’s been touched by encounters with people who perform extraordinary acts of service
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War, Peace & Human Rights
$0.00 Add to cartA great humanitarian, Benjamin Ferencz, passed away April 7 at age 103. Ben was a brilliant Harvard Law grad (pictured here in his 20s, when he successfully prosecuted Nazi war criminals). He devoted his life to protecting the innocent.
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Women of Faith
$2.95 Add to cartActress Joanne Hamlin looks at the role of outstanding women in America’s spiritual history.