If we can't face our losses, we can't 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.
Interpretation
Confronting our losses is essential to fully experience life.
In this quote, Krista Tippett emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and reconciling with our losses in order to be fully present in our lives. When we avoid facing the difficult parts of our existence, such as grief or regret, we inadvertently close ourselves off from other valuable experiences and perspectives that life has to offer.
In practice
During a workshop on personal growth, this quote was shared to encourage participants to embrace their past experiences.
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.
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.
In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry
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.
There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.
The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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