Quotes about On being

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There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own d — Aleksandar Hemon
When reading a book, one hopes it doesn’t turn into a painful process. Predictable is bad enough. Laborious is acceptabl — Chila Woychik, On Being a Rat and Other Observations
We’ve made it private, contained it in family, when its audacity is in its potential to cross tribal lines. We’ve fetish — Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
I’m strangely comforted when I hear from scientists that human beings are the most complex creatures we know of in the u — Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as clo — Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
I’m drawn to the Jewish notion of the soul, nephesh, which is not something preexistent but emergent—forming in and thro — Krista Tippett
The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no ac — David N. Elkins
My life of conversation leads me to reimagine the very meaning of hope. I define hope as distinct from optimism or ideal — Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
The conundrum of the twenty-first (century) is that with the best intentions of color blindness, and laws passed in this — Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone — Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
In human life and in the history of faith, I think, love has a quality of a bedrock reality we discover— adventurers, tr — Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
..moments of transport, and of comfort, and of a bracing vastness of possibility. That was all there for me sometimes wh — Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Psychic is the new normal. — Chad Mercree
I’m helped by a gentle notion from Buddhist psychology, that there are “near enemies” to every great virtue—reactions th — Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
I’ve had a fountain pen surgically implanted in my left index finger to save trouble. My body is tattooed with line upon — Chila Woychik, On Being a Rat and Other Observations
I suck the words word-dryto me, assimilated orderly at breakeye speedstill hard and hardersofter thenline-lined book-dry — Chila Woychik, On Being a Rat and Other Observations
When I pour a bowl of Uncle Sam’s cereal, I never know if I should stand when I eat, salute it first, or simply hum the — Chila Woychik, On Being a Rat and Other Observations
Split your skull—a hatchet works well enough. Take a more delicate instrument—a scalpel, perhaps—and make a hand-sized s — Chila Woychik, On Being a Rat and Other Observations
This piece of earth I billet grows small. Bullets of time dart past, dropping shards of opportunity at my feet. And unti — Chila Woychik, On Being a Rat and Other Observations
I no longer ask You for either happiness or paradise; all I ask of You is to listen and let me be aware and worthy of Yo — Elie Wiesel