Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett
Krista Tippettis an American journalist, author, and entrepreneur. She created and hosts the public radio program and podcast On Being. In 2014, Tippett was awarded the National Humanities Medal by U.S. President Barack Obama...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth9 November 1960
CountryUnited States of America
compassion rising problem
What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.
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The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.
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Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.
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You are not going to be perfect every day. It’s about turning up the next day and doing it again.
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Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other.
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Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves and others.
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Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.