So here's some exciting news. The on-beings Saturday morning email newsletter is back.

Curated by our wonderful colleague, Kristen Lynn, the pause is an offering towards the common

life we hope to embolden in a company. Our way of living the questions with you,

while also providing food for reflection and conversation. You'll receive updates on our latest

conversations, writings and poetry from our blog, invitations to live events, and other news and

musings. Subscribe now at onbeings.org slash the pause.

Support for on-beings with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the

spiritual foundation for a loving world. Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding

principle and animating force for our lives. A powerful love that helps us live in sacred

relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world. Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.

Elizabeth Gilbert's name is synonymous with her fantastically best-selling memoir,

Eat, Pray, Love. But she started out writing for publications by men and for men. Eat, Pray, Love was

born of a moment of total collapse in her life. And you can call it Chick-Lit, but it's inspired

millions to move forward with their lives differently. Through the disorienting process of becoming a

global celebrity, Elizabeth Gilbert has reflected deeply on the gift and challenge of creativity.

She defines creativity in life as an art, as choosing the path of curiosity over the path of fear.

This has resonance for our common life too. And she says it's not to be confused with the more

familiar trope to follow your passion. I think curiosity is our friend that teaches us how to

become ourselves. And it's a very gentle friend and a very forgiving friend. And a very constant one

passion is not so constant, not so gentle, not so forgiving, and sometimes not so available.

And so when we live in a world that has come to fetishize passion above all, there's a great

pressure around that. I'm Christa Tippett and this is on Being.

...