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Literature as the original internet, where book references act as hyperlinks and marginalia creates a dialogue with the past.
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You know, someplace you said literature is the original internet. And I wonder if that image of your grandfather is precisely what you're describing. Oh, yeah. Yeah, definitely.
And I mean, seeing these books of his added a different layer of understanding to this thing, which I've been saying for a while. And originally I meant it in
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Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
Exploring the historical virtue of 'liberality' as the forgotten foundation of liberalism and its core insight on conflict.
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Did it fail us or did we fail it? For most of my life, when I called myself a liberal, I meant basically someone who believed in universal health care and the right to form a union and racial equality, and social security.
But in her book, The Lost History of Liberalism, Helena Rosenblatt shows that in its oldest forms, liberalism was
... See moreMy own sense, Krista, is that there is something deeply built into us that needs story itself. Story is such a source of nurture that we cannot become really true human beings for ourselves and for each other without story—and without finding ways in which to tell it, to share it, to create it, to encourage younger people to create their own story.
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and who drew forth beautiful authenticity from everyone she met.
Elizabeth Gilbert • All the Way to the River: Oprah's Book Club: Love, Loss, and Liberation
put a spiritual insight to a story, an experience, a face; describe where it anchors in the ground of your being; and it will change you in the telling and others in the listening.
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
wrote a bestselling book about his experience, Radical, and coauthored another, Islam and the Future of Tolerance, with Sam Harris. He is a lion of human transformation, and I am proud to call him a friend.
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
In the overwhelming challenges that lay in front of us, in our constant efforts to reach into the systems, the structures, the power, don’t overlook the impact of simple steps that are right in front of us.
The impact that we each have as individuals.
To make a choice to treat difference with empathy and kindness
Those values that exist in the space
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