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Krista Tippett Quotes

American - Journalist | November 9, 1960 -

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.

Life Depression Experience Thinking

One of the things I reject in our cultural divisions is the clash between faith and reason, and I would say the same about mystery and intellect. They are somehow mysteriously akin to each other.

Faith Mystery Say Reason Same Would

Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think it's about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.

Think Hurt Present You Look Feeling

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

Space Virtue Interview Bring Being

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

Kindness Great Everyday Virtues

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.

Tolerance Virtue More Lived Really

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.

Wisdom Alone Intelligence Wise Want

I don't 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.

Think Accept Sides Within Us Middle

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

Compassion Problems Virtue Realize

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.

Children Experience Childhood People

Strong religious identities survive and thrive. But more than ever before, even in their most conservative iterations, they are chosen.

Survive Strong Thrive Conservative

I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.

Perspective School Early Now Europe

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