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Super Soul Sunday
''Super Soul Sunday'' is a self-help talk show hosted by Oprah Winfrey, which airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network. ''Super Soul Sunday'' premiered on October 16, 2011. Format ''Super Soul Sunday'' is designed to help viewers awaken to their best selves and discover a deeper connection to the world around them. Recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences with Daytime Emmy Awards, the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation with a Gracie Award and the Religion Communicators Council with a Wilbur Award, ''Super Soul Sunday'' features conversations between Oprah and philosophers, authors, visionaries, and spiritual leaders. It presents an array of perspectives on what it means to be alive in today’s world. Exploring themes and issues including happiness, personal fulfillment, spirituality and conscious living, guests who have appeared include: Elie Wiesel, Maya Angelou, Brené Brown, India Arie, Wayne Dyer, Gary Zukav, Iyanla Vanzant, Marianne Williamson, Phil Jac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Self Help
Self-help or self-improvement is a self-guided improvement''APA Dictionary of Physicology'', 1st ed., Gary R. VandenBos, ed., Washington: American Psychological Association, 2007.—economically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis. When engaged in self-help, people often use publicly available information or support groups, on the Internet as well as in person, where people in similar situations join together. From early examples in self-driven legal practiceSteve Salerno (2005) ''Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless'', pp. 24–25 and home-spun advice, the connotations of the word have spread and often apply particularly to education, business, psychology and psychotherapy, commonly distributed through the popular genre of self-help books. According to the ''APA Dictionary of Psychology'', potential benefits of self-help groups that professionals may not be able to provide include friendship, emotional support, experie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Dyer
Wayne Walter Dyer (May 10, 1940 – August 29, 2015) was an American self-help author and a motivational speaker. Dyer completed a Ed.D. in guidance and counseling at Wayne State University in 1970. Early in his career, he worked as a high school guidance counselor, and went on to run a successful private therapy practice. He became a popular professor of counselor education at St. John's University, where he was approached by a literary agent to put his ideas into book form. The result was his first book, '' Your Erroneous Zones'' (1976), one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 100 million copies sold to date. This launched Dyer's career as a motivational speaker and self-help author, during which he published 20 more best-selling books and produced a number of popular specials for PBS. Influenced by thinkers such as Abraham Maslow and Albert Ellis, Dyer's early work focused on psychological themes such as motivation, self actualization and assertive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Schumer
Amy Beth Schumer (born June 1, 1981) is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She ventured into comedy in the early 2000s before appearing as a contestant on the fifth season of the NBC reality competition series ''Last Comic Standing'' in 2007. From 2013 to 2016, she was the creator, co-producer, co-writer, and star of the Comedy Central sketch comedy series ''Inside Amy Schumer'', for which she received a Peabody Award and was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Variety Sketch Series in 2015. Schumer wrote and made her film debut in a starring role in '' Trainwreck'' (2015), for which she received nominations for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She published a memoir in 2016, ''The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo'', which held the top position on ''The New York Times'' Non-Fiction Best Seller list for two weeks. The same year, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Kimmel
James Christian Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is the host and executive producer of ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'', a late-night talk show that premiered on ABC on January 26, 2003, at Hollywood Masonic Temple in Hollywood, California; and on April 1, 2019, at a secondary home, the Zappos Theater on the Las Vegas Strip. Kimmel hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012, 2016 and 2020, and the Academy Awards in 2017 and 2018. Before hosting ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'', Kimmel was the co-host of Comedy Central's '' The Man Show'' and ''Win Ben Stein's Money''. Kimmel has also produced such shows as ''Crank Yankers'', ''Sports Show with Norm Macdonald'', and ''The Andy Milonakis Show''. In 2018, ''Time'' named him as one of " The World's 100 Most Influential People". Kimmel is the longest-working of all current late-night talk show hosts in the United States, following Conan O’Brien’s retirement from hosting a late-nigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mindy Kaling
Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979),Additional archive on June 25, 2015. known professionally as Mindy Kaling (), is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter and producer. She first gained recognition starring as Kelly Kapoor in the NBC sitcom ''The Office'' (2005–2013), for which she also served as a writer, executive producer, and director. For her work on the series, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series and five times for Outstanding Comedy Series. Kaling gained wider attention for creating, producing and starring in the Fox comedy series ''The Mindy Project'' (2012–2017). She created the NBC sitcom ''Champions'' (2018), also appearing in five episodes, the Hulu miniseries ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' (2019), the Netflix comedy-drama series ''Never Have I Ever'' (2020–present), the HBO Max comedy-drama series ''The Sex Lives of College Girls'' (2021–present), and ''Snowball Fight'' (2022-2023) with Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reese Witherspoon
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress and producer. The recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, she has consistently ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses. ''Time'' magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006 and 2015, and ''Forbes'' listed her among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women in 2019 and 2021. In 2021, ''Forbes'' named her the world's richest actress with an estimated net worth of $400 million. Witherspoon began her career as a teenager, making her screen debut in '' The Man in the Moon'' (1991). Her breakthrough came in 1999 with a supporting role in '' Cruel Intentions'', and for her portrayal of Tracy Flick in the black comedy ''Election''. She gained wider recognition for playing Elle Woods in the comedy ''Legally Blonde'' (2001) and its 2003 sequel, and for starring in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thich Nhat Hanh , temple in Vũng Tàu, Vietnam
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Thích is a name that Vietnamese monks and nuns take as their Buddhist surname to show affinity with the Buddha. Notable Vietnamese monks with the name include: *Thích Huyền Quang (1919–2008), dissident and activist *Thích Quảng Độ (1928–2020), critic of the Vietnamese government *Thích Quảng Đức (1897–1963), who burned himself to death as a protest *Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926–2022), Zen teacher, author and peace activist *Thích Nhật Từ (born 1969), public speaker and author *Thích Thanh Từ, author and teacher *Thích Trí Quang (1924–2019), Mahayana leader of South Vietnam's Buddhist majority in 1963 See also *Thích Ca Phật Đài Thích Ca Phật Đài () is a notable Theravada Buddhist temple in the coastal city of Vung Tau in southern Vietnam. It lies to the northwest of the Lớn mountain and was built between 1961 and 1963 when it was opened. It is set on a plot of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Sarah Ban Breathnach (pronounced “Bon Brannock”), is a best-selling author, philanthropist and public speaker. She is the author of thirteen books, including ''Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy'' which spent more than two years on The New York Times Best Seller list where it held the number one position for a year. To date, ''Simple Abundance'' has sold over 5 million copies and has been translated into 28 languages. Ban Breathnach's follow up book ''Simple Abundance'', ''Something More'', debuted at the number one spot on the best selling book lists of the ''New York Times'', ''USA Today'', ''The Wall Street Journal'' and ''Publishers Weekly''. To date, ''Something More'' has sold over 1.2 million copies. Ban Breathnach was also the first author in the history of the ''Wall Street Journal's'' list of best-selling books, to appear in both the number one (''Simple Abundance'') and number two (''The Simple Abundance Journal of Gratitude'') slots. Ban Breathnach was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Nyad
Diana Nyad (née Sneed; born August 22, 1949) is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. Nyad gained national attention in 1975 when she swam around Manhattan () and in 1979 when she swam from North Bimini, The Bahamas, to Juno Beach, Florida (). In 2013, on her fifth attempt and at age 64, she became the first person claiming to have swum from Cuba to Florida without the aid of a shark cage, swimming from Havana to Key West (110 mi or 177 km) although this has not been formally ratified by any recognised swim body. Nyad was also once ranked thirteenth among US women squash players. Early life and education Nyad was born in New York City on August 22, 1949, to stockbroker William L. Sneed Jr. and his wife Lucy Winslow Curtis (1925–2007). Her mother was a great-granddaughter of Charlotte N. Winslow, the inventor of Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, a popular morphine-based medicine for children teething that was manufactured fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle ( ; ; born Ulrich Leonard Tölle, February 16, 1948) is a German-born spiritual teacher and self-help author of ''The Power of Now'' and ''A New Earth''. After being recommended by Oprah Winfrey, his first book, ''The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment'', reached ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list in 2000 which was followed eight years later by the book ''A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose''. Early life Ulrich Leonard Tölle was born in Lünen, a small town north of Dortmund in the Ruhr region of Germany in 1948. At the age of 13, he moved to Spain to live with his father, who did not insist that he attend high school, so Tolle elected to study literature, astronomy, and languages at home. At 15, he was "heavily influenced" by a gift of the five spiritual books by the German mystic Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken. Career When he was 19, Tolle moved to England and taught German and Spanish for three years at a London language school. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Dass
Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert; April 6, 1931 – December 22, 2019), also known as Baba Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga, psychologist, and author. His best-selling 1971 book '' Be Here Now'', which has been described by multiple reviewers as "seminal", helped popularize Eastern spirituality and yoga in the West. He authored or co-authored twelve more books on spirituality over the next four decades, including ''Grist for the Mill'' (1977), ''How Can I Help?'' (1985), and ''Polishing the Mirror'' (2013). Ram Dass was personally and professionally associated with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s. Then known as Richard Alpert, he conducted research with Leary on the therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs. In addition, Alpert assisted Harvard Divinity School graduate student Walter Pahnke in his 1962 " Good Friday Experiment" with theology students, the first controlled, double-blind study of drugs and the mystical experie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Jackson
Philip Douglas Jackson (born September 17, 1945) is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and executive. A power forward, Jackson played 12 seasons in the NBA, winning NBA championships with the New York Knicks in 1970 and 1973. Jackson was the head coach of the Chicago Bulls from 1989 to 1998, leading them to six NBA championships. He then coached the Los Angeles Lakers from 1999 to 2004 and again from 2005 to 2011; the team won five league titles under his leadership. Jackson's 11 NBA titles as a coach surpassed the previous record of nine set by Red Auerbach. Jackson is known for his use of Tex Winter's triangle offense as well as a holistic approach to coaching that was influenced by Eastern philosophy, garnering him the nickname "Zen Master". Jackson cited Robert Pirsig's book ''Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'' as one of the major guiding forces in his life. He also applied Native American spiritual practices as documented in his book ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
