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| 39d8611 | We chose too small a word in the decade of my birth--tolerance--to make the world we want to live in now. We opened to the racial difference that had been there all along, separate but equal, and to a new infusion of religions, ethnicities, and values. But tolerance doesn't welcome. It allows, endures, indulges. In the medical lexicon, it is about the limits of thriving in an unfavorable environment. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 0d76b01 | But our world is abundant with beauty and courage and grace. I'm aware of a growing aspiration to attend, with all the tools we have at hand, to the human change that makes social change possible. The digital world, though a new Wild West in many ways, is on some basic level simply another screen on which we project the excesses and possibilities of life in flesh and blood. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 2a7dc5f | Tikkun Olam. There is a Jewish legend behind this notion. Sometime early in the life of the world, something happened to shatter the light of the universe into countless pieces. They lodged as sparks inside every part of the creation. The highest human calling is to look for this original light from where we sit, to point to it and gather it up and in so doing to repair the world. This can sound like an idealistic and fanciful tale. But Dr... | Krista Tippett | ||
| 0d5b461 | In human life and in the history of faith, I think, love has a quality of a bedrock reality we discover-- adventurers, travelers, each of us, only fitfully apprehending its potential. I take some solace in the fact that I'm not alone in this intuition that the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering notwithstanding, "at the center of this existence is a heart beating with love." That's how Desmond Tutu put it to me, with greater authori.. | art-of-living enoughness faith humanity love on-being | Krista Tippett | |
| 2f85fc3 | Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." In" -- | Krista Tippett | ||
| 8142706 | Maybe this is another way to think about original sin--the ingrained lure of the possibility of going numb, a habit of acquiescence to it. | Krista Tippett | ||
| a7d077d | Well, when I say "poetry is not all love, love, love," I mean romantic love is where we go first with the word. But really there is so much more to the word. The word is sober. The word is grave. The word is not just about something light and happy and pleasurable. The word calls up deep, deep responsibilities." | Krista Tippett | ||
| 3d82851 | We are among the first peoples in human history who do not broadly inherit religious identity as a given, a matter of kin and tribe, like hair color and hometown. But the very fluidity of this--the possibility of choice that arises, the ability to craft and discern one's own spiritual bearings--is not leading to the decline of spiritual life but its revival. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 95680e1 | Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 89869bb | More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible to have freedom and plenty in the West and craft an empty life; it was possible to "have nothing" in the East and create a life of intimacy and dignity and beauty." | life-and-living west-germany | Krista Tippett | |
| 5f4e3fe | The balance of our world frequently is seen as a question of power. If I have more power and more knowledge, more capacity, then I can do more. And when we have power, we can very quickly push people down. I'm the one that knows and you don't know, and I'm strong and I'm powerful, I have the knowledge. This is the history of humanity. And it is in the whole educational system, that we must educate people to become capable and to take their .. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 30832ea | Kindness is the stuff of moments, but it can be absolutely transformative in moments. Beautiful lives are transformative in moments. But we have to train ourselves to look for them. | Krista Tippett | ||
| ec233ba | Sister Simone Campbell: | community enoughness faith on-being responsibility wisdom | Krista Tippett | |
| 89f758f | Resilience is a successor to mere progress, a companion to sustainability. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 8abbee7 | And it is in the whole educational system, that we must educate people to become capable and to take their place in society. That has value, obviously. But it's not quite the same thing as to educate people to relate, to listen, to help people to become themselves. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 62604b3 | Really feeling your body move and the life inside of yourself is critical. Western culture is astoundingly disembodied and uniquely so. | Krista Tippett | ||
| a4ca191 | Race, john powell says, is like gravity, experienced by all, understood by few. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 1220617 | Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. | Krista Tippett | ||
| ad75303 | My life of conversation leads me to reimagine the very meaning of hope. I define hope as distinct from optimism or idealism. It has nothing to do with wishing. It references reality at every turn and reveres truth. It lives open eyed and wholeheartedly with the darkness that is woven ineluctably into the light of life and sometimes seems to overcome it. Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle .. | enoughness faith habit hope on-being religion spirit spiritual truth virtue wholeheartedness | Krista Tippett | |
| f01a418 | I'm drawn to the Jewish notion of the soul, nephesh, which is not something preexistent but emergent--forming in and through physicality and relational experience. This suggests that we need our bodies to claim our souls. The body is where every virtue lives or dies, but more: our bodies are access points to mystery. And in some way that barely makes sense to me, I'm sure that we have to have feet planted on the ground, literally and metaph.. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 0729e07 | But what we did is we studied our town. We did an inventory of all of the things that were present there--farms and marshes and springs and historic sites, Indian trails, buildings, our tobacco farms included. And what happened after we did this very careful and very extensive inventory is, we fell in love with the place. Most of us didn't know where we lived. We had just moved in and out rather oblivious to the beauty of things. | Krista Tippett | ||
| a31946f | I've come to understand the cumulative dialogue of my work as a kind of cartography of wisdom about our emerging world. This book is a map in words to important territory we all are on now together. It's a collection of pointers that treat the margins as seriously as the noisy center. For change has always happened in the margins, across human history, and it's happening there now. Seismic shifts in common life, as in geophysical reality, b.. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 6b40b35 | Generous listening is powered by curiosity, a virtue we can invite and nurture in ourselves to render it instinctive. It involves a kind of vulnerability--a willingness to be surprised, to let go of assumptions and take in ambiguity. The listener wants to understand the humanity behind the words of the other, and patiently summons one's own best self and one's own best words and questions. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 0b5fcb9 | In life, in religion, in science, this I believe: any conviction worth its salt has chosen to cohabit with a piece of mystery, and that mystery is at the essence of the vitality and growth of the thing. | Krista Tippett | ||
| fce9933 | By being what only I can be, I give humanity what only I can give. It is my uniqueness that allows me to contribute something unique to the universal heritage of humankind. I sum up the Jewish imperative, very simply--and it has been like this since the days of Abraham: to be true to your faith is a blessing to others regardless of their faith. That's the big paradox when you really reach the very depth of particularity. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 67def5a | I don't know why it is, how it is, but it's the authentic, the unique, the different that makes us feel enriched when we encounter it. And a bland, plastic, synthetic, universal can't-tell-one-brand-of-coffee-from-another-brand-of-coffee by contrast makes life flat, uninteresting, and essentially uncreative. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 520302d | Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. This is the humility of a child, which Jesus lauded. It is the humility of the scientist and the mystic. It has a lightness of step, not a heaviness of heart. That lightness is the surest litmus test I know for recognizing wisdom when you see it in the world or fe.. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 671d7a1 | You have your own stories, the dramatic and more ordinary moments where what has gone wrong becomes an opening to more of yourself and part of your gift to the world. This is the beginning of wisdom. And what is true for individuals is true for peoples. Our problems are not more harrowing than the ravaging depressions and wars of a century ago. But our economic, demographic, and ecological challenges are in fact existential. I think we sens.. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 11d1bf2 | Be | Krista Tippett | ||
| 1520dd3 | The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life, the more universal you are. | Krista Tippett | ||
| ce515d1 | there are "near enemies" to every great virtue--reactions that come from a place of care in us, and which feel right and good, but which subtly take us down an ineffectual path." | Krista Tippett | ||
| 098dc3d | Sorrow is a near enemy to compassion and to love. It is borne of sensitivity and feels like empathy. But it can paralyze and turn us back inside with a sense that we can't possibly make a difference. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 4f93bcf | I'm consciously shedding the assumption that a skeptical point of view is the most intellectually credible. Intellect does not function in opposition to mystery; tolerance is not more pragmatic than love; and cynicism is not more reasonable than hope. Unlike almost every worthwhile thing in life, cynicism is easy. It's | Krista Tippett | ||
| 70c431e | Lonely is one of the adjectives people like Shane Claiborne use, alongside unsustainable, to describe the culture of adulthood they grew up watching. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 667ce2c | We now know that doing good to others, having a network of strong and supportive relationships, and having a sense that one's life is worthwhile are the three greatest determinants of happiness. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 8649b52 | Internet is in its infancy. It is at a fundamental level a new canvas for the old human condition, salvation and sin, at digital speed and with viral replication. It is a magnifying glass on every human inclination, beautiful and terrible, trivial and mean, generous and curious. Take note of how this realization puts the power back with us. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 9705eb7 | From the place where the sun rises, there will come to the People a great warrior who will stand tall above his brothers and see far into the great beyond with eyes like the midnight sky. This Comanche shall carry the sign of the wolf upon his shield, yet none shall call him chief. To his people shall come much sadness, and the rivers will run red with the blood of his nation. Mountains of white bones will mark where the mighty buffalo once.. | Catherine Anderson | ||
| d0d9e12 | it was suddenly | Catherine Anderson | ||
| c04a923 | associate with that." He tugged on his ear again. "So ... tell me about your family. You and Jake seem very close. Do you have the same kind of relationship with your other brothers?" Happy to change the subject, Bethany launched into a brief description of her siblings. "In a large family like ours, it's never easy being the youngest, and I think it was especially difficult being the only girl. Too many protectors. Someone was always watch.. | Catherine Anderson | ||
| ae6bc6b | and confused, | Catherine Anderson | ||
| e6546a3 | crackle of the | Catherine Anderson | ||
| ba75b86 | A decision had been reached, and Loretta had the feeling she wasn't going to like it. Hunter secured the bearskin flap so no one would enter and then walked slowly toward the bed, his gaze leveled on hers, his arms folded loosely across his broad chest. After studying her until she wanted to ooze under the furs and hide, he sat beside her. "I will force you to drink and eat, and you will not die. All this suffering. Only to surrender in the.. | Catherine Anderson | ||
| 9037252 | You cannot escape me. You are here. That is the way of it." Glancing toward the door and the horrors she knew lay beyond, she whispered, "I have no choice." "You choose where you place your feet, Blue Eyes. This path you walk is bad--very bad. This Comanche will show you, eh?" He leaned closer. "You will learn that my hand upon you is not a terrible thing." Loretta's eyes widened. "N-not now?" His fingers curled in her hair, making a loose .. | Catherine Anderson | ||
| 9505556 | Hmm?" She stopped and looked back." | Catherine Anderson |