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Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

Krista Tippett

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Krista Tippett
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 9
Journalist
Radio Personality
the United States of America
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For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.
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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.
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Tolerance is not really a lived virtue it’s more of a cerebral ascent.
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[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.
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Structure is something that calms our nature we know this of toddlers.
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Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.
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If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.
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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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You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
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If we cant face our losses, we cant be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.
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Fear usually looks like anger.
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I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.
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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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Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.
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