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Krista Tippett

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  1. “Anyways, Friday afternoon, and I was so tired today, and I've just been really energizing, and you have built something amazing, and I'm just, I'm so amazed that you're listening to on being. And I'm really grateful to meet your audience, your people like this.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “So, yeah, so the website is onbeing.org, and we also have something called the Civil Conversations Project that we're going to be building out. There's also a civil conversations project.org website. It actually has a little. Guide that I wrote that we're calling better conversations. But we have the onbeing app in the app store. And of course, you can find the on-being podcast in iTunes or wherever you get podcasts. I am not on Facebook for some reason. It just makes me break out in hives. But I do actually love Twitter. And I mostly go there to just kind of correspond and communicate with people who reach out to me there. So that's a good place to check in.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Yeah, you know, I think in terms of the different callings of this moment, and some of us are going to have to defend and some of us may have to put our bodies in the way of danger that is coming to some people who are on the front lines of vulnerability. And I also think there's a calling for many of us to be calmers of fear.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Most of our disciplines, you know, the way things have been done don't make sense, and we're, we have to create the changed realities Not going to happen from the top, and that's not the way our digital world works anyway. But I think we have more power, more agency to do that than we are made to feel. And, you know, it's a wonderful calling. And I think we have to keep each other company, accompany each other in keeping that sense. So that would be my encouragement. Somebody was talking to me yesterday about a phrase, social courage. I think that's a good way to talk. I think that's something I want to invite people to and call people to and just make clear that that is available to us.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “As I said a minute ago, I'm just intensely aware of how many messages we internalize. And I feel that that gets in the way of people really knowing how much power they have. In terms of how they move through the world, you know, the world around them, the people they can see and touch the small and large interactions they have. We live in this bizarre moment where The places we have wanted to look for modeling and leadership and the way forward are very dysfunctional and partly because of our technology. Now, we're turn of century people. We're in this moment where we were, all of us who are adults were born in one world of assumptions and institutions that made sense and we are growing up or growing old in a world in which the”

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  6. “We don't say that, but that you can be grateful in every moment. And that's really stuck with me. And so that's how my prayer ends. Like, teach me to be grateful in every moment. And that's a really practice that helps me.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “December with in Austria with Brother David Stendel Rust. I don't know if you heard that interview. He's just a Benedictine monk. He's Austrian. He's one of the great people in the world thinking about gratitude. And that's probably one of those words I avoid a little bit too because it's just been on too many Hallmark cards. What I like about him is that, you know, he lived through then fascist occupation of his country as a teenager like he's really known. He knows how gritty the world is. And one of the things he says is that It would be absurd to say for any of us to say that you should be grateful for everything that happens to you.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “And that what I fear that I might welcome. And I pray about blessing that, you know, constantly knowing the difference between intentions and consequences. Because I think there's something, you know, mysterious about what becomes of our actions that we don't control and that that's actually largely a wonderful thing. But it doesn't Don't necessarily converge with kind of my American can do accomplishment mentality to lean into that, that you do the right thing for the right reason and to some extent you have to let go. What becomes of it And That's kind of some of the big ideas. Of course, again, I say it every morning and now I, you know, I spent some time last week.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “More details because that's so valuable to you in a way, yeah. So in a way, it reflects what I've been learning about myself, like what I need to work on my inner life, my spiritual work, right? Like it's... The thing that I've been, I pray to keep learning, to open my heart. And keep learning. To let go of the kind of resistance and protectiveness that saved me when I was growing up. And that doesn't, that, you know, that became an armor around my natural love and trust and softness. Kind of my life work, right? And I'm so much better. I mean, just the fact that I can say it that way means I'm getting somewhere, but it's still my life work. And, you know, I pray that. It's like when I inclined to ambition to know, to take delight.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “And I'm happy if I've kind of prepared the day with important correspondence or with getting some important ideas out. And then eventually I go to work about 9.30 or 10. And usually I have something to record in the morning.”

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  11. “Would be not as good as a prayer that had been around for hundreds or thousands of years. But somehow I managed to write something that is a really good way for me to Move into the day And so I say that, and I also have some time of silence and just breathing and sometimes kind of a mantra. And all of this in 10 minutes isn't incredible. I'm so productive. And of course, just like everybody else, I will. I will be distracted for six of those 10 minutes. I think that's why having a bit of liturgy that you have to stick to, right? Like having something to hang with and on. And then I do make my tea and put my milk in it. And I get to email. If I have writing to do, I do that in the mornings just when my mind is clear.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “Big sir, it was incredible. And one thing I did is I actually wrote a prayer. It was like the prayer of my life right now. And it was such an incredible thing to do. I never thought of doing that. But I think the thing is, and this is where I've been saying, you know, I think spiritual life is a very like we all have personality types. And so you have to find what works for you. I grew up Southern Baptist, which is all very free-flowing and like when the minister was praying, you were supposed to be praying your own prayer in your head. And there's something about me that likes, I like liturgy. I like rituals. But I think previously I would have thought that even writing my own poem, my own prayer would be.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “Yeah, well, it's an interesting question. I mean, I, for a long time, I used to have a book of common prayer and I used to read the Compline. These compline services, these ancient services very poetic and Recently, I have never talked to anybody about this. This summer, I got quiet and rested for the first time in about 10 years. It was amazing.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  14. “Yeah, which is what makes good strong black tea in Minnesota. I think everywhere you are with the water, it's different. Yeah, I sit for about 10 minutes and I sometimes I read a little bit. Like I read a little Thomas Merton or a little Pemashodrun or a little Rilka and then I actually have started adding prayer back into my meditation. I realize that's my mother tongue and that's kind of been a revelation for me to start doing that again.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “Maybe, you know, maybe that line that you started with right now that, you know, that anger is what fear and pain look like when they show themselves in public. You know, I think that would be a good thing for people to reflect on even briefly.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “Yeah, I think I watched a lot of things I loved this summer. I loved. I loved the night manager. I loved, you know, I was, I've been reading John Lakari in all my years in Germany. I love that kind of thing. I love those thriller stories. I loved true blood. I loved the vampires.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  17. “Frosty with somebody because they said, Who's your favorite interview ever? And I said, I, you know, I can't choose. I said, I love them all, or who's your favorite interview this year. And I always say my favorite interview is the last one I did. And they said, well, you're being very diplomatic. And I said, no, I'm not being diplomatic. It's true. So I would say my favorite movie would probably be the last one I watched, except I watched a lot more TV than movies these days. I love how we're relearning storytelling and doing it well on TV.”

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  18. “I'm so bad at these questions about favorites, like everything goes out of my mind. And in fact, you know, people, a lot of people ask me, what is my favorite interview? And in fact, I just had this exchange about a week ago where I was a little bit.”

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  19. “They're my friend Nell, who's in her 80s who Just one of the wisest people I know and one of the dearest people I know, and the person who encouraged me to To work on this project that sounded pretty far fetched when I first had the idea. And she's just You know, she really cares. She's really curious. And she's also a joyful person. And, um, That enjoy is infectious. And, you know, so she's a great listener”

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  20. “Well, sometimes people say to me, oh, you know. Surrounded by people who didn't listen. And so in the absence of that, I felt my need of it. So I didn't grow up with a lot of models. And I don't, you know, while there are certainly many good journalists and Know as I say, I don't really take my models from kind of traditional media. Mean the good listeners I know are not famous people, that's okay.”

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  21. “The practice of listening, like practical tools, as well as the kind of presence the intentionality that needs to go into that. These are practical skills. I think listening is a basic social art. And it's not just that we have to relearn them and that we haven't kind of learned these things. The things that we have very actively learned work against them. So we've all really been trained in the tools of advocacy presenting, representing our position. And we need those skills, but we actually need to kind of retire them. Also, we need to learn to dampen those as reflexively the only things we know how to do. And so I think that could be fun, like to, you know, and to, and the art of asking better questions.”

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  22. “I would just want them to get a big view of time, you know, to see this as a moment. Within a much larger canvas of time and to see what we internalize as the news, which we too often internalize as like the whole of kind of a snapshot of reality, to be able to create some skills to put all of that into perspective and to ask what might really be important that's not that we're not talking about. I don't know if I had to teach skills, I suppose, which is really your question. I think these days I would love to do, and I actually did a, or I didn't do create a course, but Eudemi, is that how you say that? They created a course on, I did something through Acumen, which is a course on listening and conversation. And I would love to teach just about, you know, the art of conversation.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  23. “By that narrative, well, it's overwhelming. It actually is very paralyzing. And it does not tell or give people to work with other realities, like generative realities. The things that are actually saving us, the things that are growing us up. And that also like focusing on that and focusing on a long view of time as opposed to this 24-7 instant view of time, which makes us small. Taking seriously, treating as a data point the beautiful and noble people and projects you see around you, not that it doesn't refute the hard things that are happening, but it's also true”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  24. “Sorry, college freshman or college seniors Gosh, I don't know how I would choose. I do spend a lot of time with people that age, and I love it. I guess I would choose college seniors just because I think, you know, you're so much under formation in those years and still as a college senior. What would I teach? Oh how They're growing up into this world of disarray now. I don't know if this is a teaching subject, but I'm thinking a lot about the narrative. That we all walk around internalizing and working with, which is the narrative we receive from whatever was in the New York Times today, what it was in the headlines of NPR, or whatever our media chosen media is, BuzzFeed or, you know, whatever it is we're reading. And how that is not the whole story. And how when we walk around too shaped by”

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  25. “Anna Macy, M-A-C-Y, and Anita Barrows. It's Rilka's book of Ours and the subtitle is Love Poems to God. I have gifted Pema Shodron's When Things Fall Apart. That's kind of a sacred text that I carry around with me at all times because things are always falling apart. Like that's a book I feel like I can pick up. Anywhere at any moment, and read a paragraph, and it will be redemptive. I also love Rilkas' letters to a young poet. I give that to young people. And it's not really about poetry. It's about life. And there's some wonderful things in there about love and the facile understanding of love that we walk around with and the idea of giving yourself time to grow up and grow into what love can be.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  26. “Entry point of all of them caring about their children. And, you know, whether whoever they voted for, being able to have this really constructive conversation that was meaningful to all of them about. They're going to teach their children how they're going to talk to them, the realities they want to. And I think they'll get really, you can get really far down the road with that without ever having to talk about who you vote, why you voted for who you voted for. And yet it creates a possibility of relationship, which creates all kinds of other possibilities, kind of coming at this from a sideways direction.”

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  27. “We don't, if you want to talk to people across different, you don't probably start with that, right? Like we just think we have to do everything head on, you know, we're Americans. We have to accomplish something. We've got an hour here. And so I'll tell you one of the most hopeful stories I have been talking about this. I've heard a good model for this is I was in Iowa like the week after the election and there was this woman who talked to me about how she and a group of parents who she knows who were pretty much split down the middle in terms of who they voted for in the election share a concern about the effect the corrosive public speech and the corrosive campaign had had on their children, their children's imaginations. And so they were gathering Across these divides of politics with this shared”

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  28. “Yeah, and the other thing I think goes along with that is question the reflexes you have about how you walk into those encounters and what you're going to talk about because we basically we're on all these, we have all these kind of dead end, these like built-in instincts about You know, the debate we will have, or how we will present or defend our position or be advocates or change someone's mind, or we go in with all kinds of assumptions about them. And so I really don't think this is rocket science, but part of what we have to work through are all the instincts we're carrying that don't serve us well And then, um, You know, the other thing is, and this is connected to that.”

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  29. “Foundation. It's hard for the next few days, and it's hard to imagine us carving out that kind of time and space. But I think we could figure this out if we wanted to.”

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  30. “Yeah, and the only thing, so it's very practical. It's something anybody could do. The only thing that we'd have to create that we don't have now is we don't like is, and this is a big order, is space and time, right? We would need to create to somehow have spaces, as I say, that are trustworthy where it would be reasonable to invite people in and expect them to show some vulnerability and tell some truth. And it wouldn't actually be reasonable to ask people to do that in most of our political spaces, in a lot of our public spaces now. So that's something we'd have to make happen. And also time, right, that you, because like with these monks, with these gatherings in collegeville, they would have five days. So like everybody would spend 45 minutes or an hour answering that question on the first day. And then that was an incredible.”

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  31. “People start talking about why did you vote for Donald Trump or why did you vote for Hillary Clinton answer the question through the story of your life? And then we would actually start talking about eventually the things we need to start talking about, you know, including economics and our children's future and the fact that Have a shared stake in all of our children's future.”

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  32. “So it's, and you know, the difference between Armenian Orthodox Christians and Nazarene holiness Christians is as vast as the difference between different faiths. So that's what this place was about. But they would take up big theological questions and big theological divides by posing a question and asking people to answer the question through the story of your life, which actually you still got to really big, heady places in the discussion, but you humanized it as you got there. And I've been thinking since the election, I think this would work. I don't know how it would be structured, but what if we could have create these experiences where people got together in trustworthy spaces where they could be safe, they were safe, and you just, you had.”

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  33. “Well, it was like inter Christian, intradenominational conversation, which we forget that in the 1960s it was absolutely radical when Catholics and Protestants started talking to each other. And then when they added Jews, you know, it was amazing.”

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  34. “Yeah, it humanizes. We have all these ways we think we know each other. We think we know what each other are about. And they have to do with positions and issues, right? Or, you know, how somebody voted. We don't know. We don't know each other on a human level. I mean, I've been thinking since the election about I learned I started my vision for doing this and kind of a bit of my methodology started in this project. I did for some Benedictine monks back in the late 90s. And they were cuminists, which when they started doing it was a completely revolutionary thing.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  35. “Any of us do that in whatever small way in our communities, that is practicing presence, right? And practicing real curiosity. And working on asking better questions and caring to find out details and nuance and complexity. You know, those are ways to talk about what I do in this work I do.”

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  36. “With your children, with your, you know, with your family becoming a neighbor in a different way. I mean, and I just, I feel like the great challenge that is before us now as a country is to figure out what common life means to reimagine it. I think we actually have to reinvent it. I think even if our political life weren't so fractured, we'd have to reinvent it. And maybe this is one reason our political life is so fractured. It's just not going to look like the same thing in the 21st century as it did in the latter half of the 20th century. And that is about in very practical ways kind of getting to know our neighbors who have become strangers. And I mean, that is a calling, right? For now. And so anytime.”

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  37. “Oh, I just think you could do this in, you know, you can do this in terms of how you. How you interact with your colleagues in the workplace. I mean, you know, this is one of the things Adam Grant writes about, right? Givers in the workplace change everybody. And I also know, and this is true across my career as anybody else's, is that the workplace can be one of the most stressful places to do that. Like I always wanted to do a show. Well, we were a big part of a big media organization until three years ago, and I always wanted to do a radio show called The Problem of Evil in the Workplace, which evil is so much greater in workplaces than that was much more devastating than whatever my fear of earthquakes or fires. So, you know. Where you work, where you live”

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  38. “And I was fortunate to create this job that allows me To do this with an intensity and a primacy in my life. But I don't think you have to have this job to be doing this. I keep putting myself in this position. And anytime you keep putting yourself in a certain place, in a certain position, practicing certain things year after year, it changes you. And this has changed me.”

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  39. “Well, I don't want to burst anyone's bumblebee. I mean, what people's experience of me are, you know, are these. These very intense containers in which I'm fully present to another human being and have immersed myself in who they are. And it is, you know, I am there. That's right. To absolutely draw out the best of them, to help them. Put words around something maybe they've never put words around and that we're all present while that happens. Now I'm actually, you know, I'm going to be kind to myself and I'm going to say that at this point in my life, I am actually getting to the point where I live that way a lot of the time, but I couldn't have said that for the first 50 years. I mean, really the short answer to that question is practice. You know, at some point about 15 years ago, I started walking in this direction.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  40. “Contradicts that a little bit because ultimately, and you know, it's interesting because I wrote a whole book about wisdom without defining wisdom. So as soon as I was out talking about the book, this is one of the first questions people would ask me, how do you define wisdom? And I realized I'd never done that. I mean, you could say that it was a few hundred pages about it. But what I think distinguishes wisdom from knowledge or accomplishment or intelligence, I think a wise person can have all those things. But it's not a possession. It's not like you look at someone, you know, as like you can do, they are smart, they are intelligent, they are accomplished. The measure of wisdom is the imprint, a life mix on other lives, on the world around it. And, you know, with a wise person, it's just almost something that's palpable. It's something you can see.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  41. “There's this ability to kind of see the world whole and to have a whole vision of change and this, you know, this fierceness, this urgency about that. So I think there are these flashes of wisdom at different stages of life and that it is something that's accessible that we can. That we can practice and aspire to like we practice and aspire to other skills. How I define it.”

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  42. “A definition of wisdom But I want to say that to me, wisdom, to me, every stage of life, there's a capacity for wisdom at many different stages of any life, I think. So, yes, there is something very special about a person who has lived a long time and accumulated wisdom by way of experience, the fullness of the human experience, by how they have moved through that and what they've internalized as they've moved through, what they've integrated into their wholeness, like how they've integrated. What has gone wrong into their wholeness? So that's, but that's just one kind of wisdom. I, you know, there's a wisdom of young children that can be uncanny. They're, you know, four-year-olds say things and ask things that drive to the heart of the matter. There's a wisdom of teenagers and of people in their 20s. There's this.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  43. “I would say inner life, interior life is one way to approach it. That doesn't quite get at spiritual, but it gets pretty close to me. And again, there are as many ways of doing inner life and interior life, you know, as there are people.”

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  44. “Wondering how you can pretty much, spirituality is one of these words that I try not to overuse because it is amorphous. I also think you can't avoid it. So I know that for people who are atheist or agnostic, you find different degrees of comfort with the spirituality language. And so if I just say this, I don't think that anybody stops having a spiritual life. Because of the absence of a belief in God I think an atheist can have a spiritual life. And I think every atheist I know has a spiritual life. I also acknowledge that some of them wouldn't like that language, and I would honor that. So it's not about faith.”

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  45. “This has deepened my spiritual life as much as any other, any kind of technically spiritual activity. So part of this is about us giving ourselves permission to see what is ordinary as spiritual practice. And that is a real relief”

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  46. “Folding the towels sweetly. I mean, some of the great mystics, you know, Brother Lawrence wrote this book, The Practice of the Presence of God, you know, and he talked about, you know, washing the dishes as an act of prayer. And Tikhn Han does that too, you know, how you wash the dishes. So that's important. And then the final thing I would say that is actually included in those kinds of ways of being that I just mentioned is that it's embodied. At this point in my life, I'm really not very interested in anything that is merely spiritual. And it's, you know, doing yoga, getting into my body and also it's in our bodies that we encounter other human beings.”

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  47. “You know how you are present to whatever you are doing. That's also spiritual practice. And then something else I would say about that is that it's not about being perfect. But it is about intentionality and it's about forgiving yourself and it's about being gentle with yourself and others. It's a gentle thing. It doesn't have to be something you wear on your sleeve or that you could wear on your sleeve. I mean, one of the conversations I've had with is with Sylvia Borstein, who's a Jewish Buddhist teacher and talks about, you know, spirituality can be.”

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  48. “And now we know from science, you're also calming yourself. You're doing all these great things for your well-being on every level. But what I would want to say also about spiritual practice, beginning a spiritual practice, is so I think ritual is really critical because I just think as creatures we need it too. I think it's a human need. And spiritual life benefits from that. But also, I don't like to think of spiritual life as a compartment of life. I think that it's how you move through your days. And I think those rituals actually can help you internalize that. It's as much about kind of how you are.”

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  49. “Well, I think practices are important and I do think that everybody gets to find what works for them, where it works for their personality type, what works for their. Life. I mean, you know, it's the same thing. Like, if you're talking about prayer, so I mean, there are a lot of people who pray, but there are so many forms of doing that, and they don't all work for everyone. So I think what I think is important in human life, that our spiritual traditions have always known is ritual, right? So in a way, what we're talking about, I mean, you could say that your meditation practice is also a form of ritual. It's setting aside time when you are recollecting yourself, right?”

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  50. “So, you know, and this was a strange feeling that I felt I was by some measure less productive, but that did not mean that there wasn't time in the day. And it was much less stressful and it was less stressful for the other people on the other end of my emails.”

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