117 Quotes by Krista Tippett

Internet is in its infancy. It is at a fundamental level a new canvas for the old human condition, salvation and sin, at digital speed and with viral replication. It is a magnifying glass on every human inclination, beautiful and terrible, trivial and mean, generous and curious. Take note of how this realization puts the power back with us.

You can disagree with another person’s opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can’t disagree with their experience.

We watch our technologies becoming more intelligent, and speculate imaginatively about their potential to become conscious. All the while, we have it in us to become wise.

We knew what we were against. We just didn’t know what we were for.

Sorrow is a near enemy to compassion and to love. It is borne of sensitivity and feels like empathy. But it can paralyze and turn us back inside with a sense that we can’t possibly make a difference.

The interesting and challenging thing about this moment is that we know the old forms aren’t working. But we can’t yet see what the new forms will be. We are making them up in “real time”; we’re even reimagining time.

Healing,” said the poet, “is not a science but the intuitive art of wooing nature.

Maybe this is another way to think about original sin – the ingrained lure of the possibility of going numb, a habit of acquiescence to it.

Really feeling your body move and the life inside of yourself is critical. Western culture is astoundingly disembodied and uniquely so.