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Katherine May – How ‘Wintering’ Replenishes

On Being with Krista Tippett

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What It Means to Be Human?

i think what it means to be human is to live a life that's deeply cyclical. There isn't one path, straight path through, and certainly not an uphill path that works its way to a summit. My understanding now, as i get older, of being human, is that my life is fundamentally syclical. And that sounds nihilistic, but i don't think it is. Actually, i think that if we can truly grasp and believe in how fleeting this life is, how delicate, how subject to powers beyond our control, that we can begin to set our minds to a better way of living within it than tormenting itsel fwith trying to grasp on to things

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