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Krista Tippett (née Weedman, born November 9, 1960) is an American journalist, author, and entrepreneur. She created and hosts the public radio program and podcast On Being. In 2014, Tippett was awarded the National Humanities Medal by U.S. President Barack Obama.

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Fear usually looks like anger.

Anger, Fear, Like, Looks, Usually

If we cant face our losses, we cant be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

Cut, Cutting, Everything, Loss, People

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.

Becoming One, Connected, Peace, Race, Technology, Wondrous

Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.

Enriching, Part, Perfect, Sadness, Thinking

You are not going to be perfect every day. It’s about turning up the next day and doing it again.

Next Day, Perfect, Next, Turning, Day

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

Intellectually, Interviews, Space, Virtue

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.

Ascent, Tolerance, Virtue

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Wise, Wisdom, Exercise, Capacities, Human

Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.

Calm, Calms, Structure, Toddler, Toddlers

I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

Accept, Ideas, Issue, Middle, Thinking, Two Sides

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

Spiritual, Peace, Technology, Compassion

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time. . . Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

Doe, Endangered, Quantity, Reality, Silence, Stuns

If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.

Afraid, Cant, God, Ifs, Learn

Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other.

God, Religious, Compassion, Brings, Encouraging

For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.

God, Names, Our World, Throws, Understand, Voice

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

Art, Heart, Language, Place, Same, Way

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

Change, Compassion, Standards, Vocabulary, Work

Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.

20Th, Division, Mass Destruction, National, Science, Weapons