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3 practices for wisdom and wholeness

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Krista Tippett |

TED2023

• April 2023

How do we stand before the pain and promise of the world and keep hope and courage alive? Journalist and podcast host Krista Tippett has spent a career interviewing some of the world's wisest people in search of answers to that question. Listen along as she offers three practices to help you make sense of what it means to be human right now — and how to live in a way that helps remake the world for the better.

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How do we stand before the pain and promise of the world and keep hope and courage alive? Journalist and podcast host Krista Tippett has spent a career interviewing some of the world's wisest people in search of answers to that question. Listen along as she offers three practices to help you make sense of what it means to be human right now — and how to live in a way that helps remake the world for the better.

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With her groundbreaking "On Being" podcast, Krista Tippett takes up the ancient, animating questions for 21st-century life: What does it mean to be human? How do we want to live? And who will we be to each other?

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Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

Krista Tippett | Penguin Books (2017)

Krista Tippett - *Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living*

This talk was presented at an official TED conference.

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Find ways to subscribe and listen to the On Being podcast — and learn more about the entire, emergent On Being Project at onbeing.org.

Sign up for The Pause, On Being's seasonal Saturday morning newsletter. A companion to listening and living — and a source of news, updates and invitations throughout the year.