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[Unedited] Brother David Steindl-Rast with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Is There a Connection Between Monastic Calling and the Life You Choose Later?

Ofi was kind of loveti. I wouldn't trade it with any other. But then all the surrounding elements of monastic life and so did not particularly appeal to me. So i kind of ran away and got one alibi after the other, studying this and studing that,. Then going to the united states. That was also running away. And then wasn't there very long, maybe less than half a year, and i run into this monastery, and i knew, this is it. It suddenly became perfectly clear to me, this was the way to be joyful - regardless of what happened. Mandye, we had death at all timestensity of presence, at intensity of...

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