Becoming Wise Deluxe: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of

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Becoming Wise Deluxe: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

In the deluxe edition of Becoming Wise, readers can listen to five hours of audio interviews Krista Tippett conducted with more than forty contributors, and access the full conversations throughÂ On Being.

â€œIâ€™m a person who listens for a living.Â I listen for wisdom, and beauty, and for voices not shouting to be heard.Â This book chronicles some of what Iâ€™ve learned in what has become a conversation across time and generations, across disciplines and denominations.â€
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Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and National Humanities Medalist Krista Tippett has interviewed the most extraordinary voices examining the great questions of meaning for our time. The heart of her work on her national public radio program and podcast,Â On Being,Â has been to shine a light on people whose insights kindle in us a sense of wonder and courage. Scientists in a variety of fields; theologians from an array of faiths; poets, activists, and many others have all opened themselves up to Tippett's compassionate yet searching conversation.
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InÂ Becoming Wise, Tippett distills the insights she has gleaned from this luminous conversation in its many dimensions into a coherent narrative journey, over time and from mind to mind. The book is a master class in living, curated by Tippett and accompanied by a delightfully ecumenical dream team of teaching faculty.Â
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The open questions and challenges of our time are intimate and civilizational all at once, Tippett says â€“ definitions of when life begins and when death happens, of the meaning of community and family and identity, of our relationships to technology and through technology. The wisdom we seek emerges through the raw materials of the everyday. And the enduring question of what it means to be human has now become inextricable from the question of who we are to each other.Â
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This book offers a grounded and fiercely hopeful vision of humanity for this century â€“ of personal growth but also renewed public life and human spiritual evolution. It insists on the possibility of a common life for this century marked by resilience and redemption, with beauty as a core moral value and civility and love as muscular practice. Krista Tippett's great gift, in her work and inBecoming Wise, is to avoid reductive simplifications but still find the golden threads that weave people and ideas together into a shimmering braid.
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One powerful common denominator of the lessons imparted to Tippett is the gift of presence, of the exhilaration of engagement with life for its own sake, not as a means to an end. But presence does not mean passivity or acceptance of the status quo. Indeed Tippett and her teachers are people whose work meets, and often drives, powerful forces of change alive in the world today. In the end, perhaps the greatest blessing conveyed by the lessons of spiritual genius Tippett harvests inÂ Becoming WiseÂ is the strength to meet the world where it really is, and then to make it better.

Country	USA
Author	Krista Tippett
Binding	Kindle Edition with Audio/Video
EISBN	9780735221468
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Penguin Press
Manufacturer	Penguin Press
NumberOfPages	299
PublicationDate	2016-04-05
Publisher	Penguin Press
ReleaseDate	2016-04-05
Studio	Penguin Press

Becoming Wise Deluxe: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

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