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.
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
I've always had an unsentimental view. I don't think the BBC is my auntie. I worked there for years, and you learn that they don't love you for yourself. They'll use you as long as you're popular. You shouldn't wait until it starts to wane. It can sometimes end badly.
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