Becoming Wise: Krista Tippett on Love and Mastering the Art of Living

Becoming Wise: Krista Tippett on Love and Mastering the Art of Living

"Words are events, they do things, change things," Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in her beautiful meditation on the power and magic of real human conversation. "They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."

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Sharing for this paragraph in particular:

"We all live lives that are complicated and that at times, with infinite variation, feel overwhelming. But we know people in our immediate world who step beyond themselves, into care. If you know them up close, you know they are not saints or heroes — take note of that, and take comfort. Feel how when you extend a kindness, however simple, you are energized and not depleted. Scientists … are proving that acts of kindness and generosity are literally infectious, passing from stranger to stranger to stranger. Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues, love most especially [emphasis added]."