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

There are very strong words of Martin Luther King. His question was always, how is it that one group—the white group—can despise another group, which is the black group. And will it always be like this? Will we always be having an elite condemning or pushing down others that they consider not worthy? And he says something I find extremely beautiful

The task is reframing so that we can reexperience the social realities that are right in front of us, from a different angle.

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,

I can disagree with your opinion, it turns out, but I

Philosophers and physicians didn’t mean to divide us up. It’s what we do instinctively with great truths—we take them to extremes.

scientists make the best meditators because they are most comfortable with knowing what they don’t know.

Physical, emotional, and spiritual are more entangled than we guessed, more interactive in every direction, and this knowledge is a form of power.

Generous listening in fact yields better questions. It’s not true what they taught us in school; there is such a thing as a bad question.

questions. The world right now needs the most vivid, transformative universe of words that you and I can muster.