{"author":"Krista Tippett","author_id":"Krista+Tippett","total_quotes":31,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Krista Tippett","tags":["life","depression","thinking "],"id":6115,"author_id":"Krista+Tippett"},{"text":"If we are stretching to live wiser and not just smarter, we will aspire to learn what love means, how it arises and deepens, how it withers and revives, what it looks like as a private good but also a common good. I long to make this word echo differently in hearts and ears—not less complicated, but differently so. Love as muscular, resilient. Love as social—not just about how we are intimately, but how we are together, in public. I want to aspire to a carnal practical love—eros become civic, not sexual and yet passionate, full-bodied. Because it is the best of which we are capable, loving is also supremely exacting, not always but again and again. Love is something we only master in moments.","author":"Krista Tippett","tags":["change","love","mindfulness","redemption","redemptive","transformatio","wisdom"],"id":9481,"author_id":"Krista+Tippett"},{"text":"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 authority than mine from a life that has known extremes of human cruelty one to another.","author":"Krista Tippett","tags":["adventure","art-of-living","enoughness","faith","humanity","love","on-being"],"id":10852,"author_id":"Krista+Tippett"},{"text":"The conundrum of the twenty-first (century) is that with the best intentions of color blindness, and laws passed in this spirit, we still carry instincts and reactions inherited from our environments and embedded in our being below the level of conscious decision. There is a color line in our heads, and while we could see its effects we couldn’t name it until now. But john powell is also steeped in a new science of “implicit bias,” which gives us a way, finally, even to address this head on. It reveals a challenge that is human in nature, though it can be supported and hastened by policies to create new experiences, which over time create new instincts and lay chemical and physical pathways. This is a helpfully unromantic way to think about what we mean when we aspire, longingly, to a lasting change of heart. And john powell and others are bringing training methodologies based on the new science to city governments and police forces and schools. What we’re finding now in the last 30 years is that much of the work, in terms of our cognitive and emotional response to the world, happens at the unconscious level.","author":"Krista Tippett","tags":["art-of-living","black-lives-matter","color-line","diversity","history","humanity","implicit-bias","inclusion","john-powell","love","nature","non-violence","on-being","race","racism"],"id":12513,"author_id":"Krista+Tippett"},{"text":"For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children of your own that brings an urgency to the question of what you believe.","author":"Krista Tippett","tags":["children","experience "],"id":14838,"author_id":"Krista+Tippett"},{"text":"Truth can be told in an instant, forgiveness can be offered spontaneously, but reconciliation is the work of lifetimes and generations.","author":"Krista Tippett","tags":["forgiveness","reconciliation","truth"],"id":25053,"author_id":"Krista+Tippett"},{"text":"The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that.","author":"Krista Tippett","tags":["art-of-living","attention","awe","beauty","diversity","enlightenment","god","grace","humanity","life","life-force","love","mindfulness","mystery","on-being","religion","spirit","wisdom","wonder"],"id":43100,"author_id":"Krista+Tippett"},{"text":"In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry.","author":"Krista Tippett","tags":["art","heart","humanity","language","poetry","religion"],"id":47793,"author_id":"Krista+Tippett"},{"text":"..Moments of transport, and of comfort, and of a bracing vastness of possibility. That was all there for me sometimes when I plunged my mind into the Bible’s puzzles; and it was always there in the music of church. I wouldn’t have said it this way then. But I would feel all the cells in my body as I sang hymns that connected my little life with the grandeur of the cosmos, the Christian drama across space and time. This was my earliest experience of breath and body, mind and spirit soaring together, alive to both mystery and reality, in kinship with others both familiar and unknown. That’s one way I’d define the feeling of faith now.","author":"Krista Tippett","tags":["art-of-living","christian","church","faith","hymns","love","mind","music","mystery","on-being","pantheism","reality","spirit"],"id":74841,"author_id":"Krista+Tippett"},{"text":"I’m strangely comforted when I hear from scientists that human beings are the most complex creatures we know of in the universe, still, by far. Black holes are in their way explicable; the simplest living being is not. I lean a bit more confidently into the experience that life is so endlessly perplexing. I love that word. Spiritual life is a way of dwelling with perplexity—taking it seriously, searching for its purpose as well as its perils, its beauty as well as its ravages.","author":"Krista Tippett","tags":["art-of-living","beauty","faith","humanity","nature","on-being","perplexity","science","soul","space","spirit","universe"],"id":76833,"author_id":"Krista+Tippett"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}