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On Being with Krista Tippett

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What Does It Mean to Be Human?

i want to ask you, before we hear some more poetry, this ancient, animating question, what does it mean to be human? I mean, that's something you have reflected on with language and in thought all across your life. But how you would begin to answer that question now? And what do you keep on learning, or what are you learning anew moment in your life about what it means to behuman? Well, one of the interesting qualities of being human is, by the luck of it, we're the only part of creation that can actually refuse to be ourselves. None of us really feel we deserve our happiness. Think self compassion has to do with this ability to understand

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