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Stephen Batchelor — Wondrous Doubt

On Being with Krista Tippett

CHAPTER

The Mystery of Surprise

I was thinking about the great Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. He would talk about surprise as a spiritual virtue. We must learn how to be surprised not to adjust ourselves. The Buddha also did not, you know, that there's something, that the part of what these traditions are for is to unsettle us in ways that that we need.

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