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.
It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other Βpeople. Nothing that happens to a writer β however happy, however tragic β is ever wasted.
There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
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