3 practices for wisdom and wholeness | Krista Tippett
Nov 8, 2024
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Discover three practices for a life of wisdom with journalist and podcast host Krista Tippett. Embrace the generative story to shape your perspective, learn to live with unanswered questions and embrace the unknown, and explore the concepts of question, calling, and wholeness in cultivating wisdom and wholeness.
Recognize the generative narrative of our time to create a more complete and positive view of the world.
Embrace unanswered questions and allow them to guide our actions and invite meaningful solutions.
Deep dives
The Generative Narrative
The talk emphasizes the importance of recognizing and embracing the generative narrative of our time. While we are often consumed by stories of catastrophe and dysfunction, there is an abundant reality of things going right in the world. This includes ordinary people finding ways to be of service and have a positive impact. By consciously orienting ourselves to the generative story, we can take in the good and actively shape a more complete and visible picture of the world, which holds both pain and promise.
Living the Questions
The speaker encourages us to live with unanswered questions, acknowledging that there are vast, aching, open questions before us that may not have immediate answers. Rather than being obsessed with finding answers, we are called to honor and dwell with the questions themselves. Questions are powerful and shape our experience, and by engaging with them, we open ourselves to the possibility of discovery. It is suggested that formulating and carrying a question over time can guide our actions and invite us to see and move towards meaningful solutions.
How do we stand before the pain and promise of the world and keep hope and courage alive? Journalist and podcast host Krista Tippett has spent a career interviewing some of the world's wisest people in search of answers to that question. Listen along as she offers three practices to help you make sense of what it means to be human right now — and how to live in a way that helps remake the world for the better.