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On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Challenges of Otherness

i want a share that i think there are two challenges with otherness really. One is, one is we sometimes fall into the trap of not listening, or feeling threatened, or closing ourselves to the other. But we also make a different mistake, which is to be overly familiar with the other, and to think that we already know the other. And so at a very, very micro nano scale, the same thing is true. When i'm standing two feet away from someone and looking at them, there's some lag,. There's some time ase between the light from their face reaching my eyes and when it originated in their face. I'm seeing you a moment ago, even though

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