
Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living

Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. I meet others with the life I’ve lived, not just with my questions.
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
can human beings come to understand their own well-being as linked to that of others, in wider and wider circles, beyond family and tribe?
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
risk falling down,
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
I have more questions than answers. But good questions, generously posed, seriously held, are powerful things.
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
Physical, emotional, and spiritual are more entangled than we guessed, more interactive in every direction, and this knowledge is a form of power.
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
Words make worlds.
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
I have an interest in trying to find a way that I can honor some of their values without giving up mine. That’s, for me, what has happened.
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
The task is reframing so that we can reexperience the social realities that are right in front of us, from a different angle.
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
light in all events and all people, to lift it up and make it visible once again and thereby to restore the innate wholeness of the world. It’s a very important story for our times. This task is called tikkun olam in Hebrew. It’s the restoration of the world. And this is, of course, a collective task. It involves all people who have ever been born,
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