Krista Tippett: What we discover when we’re not looking
Meditative Story
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4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Sitting around tables with arms experts, moving missiles around a map of Europe as if it were a gameboard, On Being's Krista Tippett grabs the moment to dislodge herself from the exhilaration of power. The journey that ensues leads her to a remote cottage in Spain where a chance encounter with a retired accountant, Robert, creates the space to redirect her life forever.
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| 0:00.0 | Looking back, if I could change something, I wish I'd been kinder to myself all along. |
| 0:14.2 | A year or so ago, I was telling someone this story of my 20s, and they said, |
| 0:21.0 | How did you get to be so brave? |
| 0:24.8 | And I realized I'd never given myself any credit for being brave. |
| 0:30.2 | I was always second-guessing myself or planning what I had to do next. |
| 0:36.4 | I didn't give myself credit for how far I'd come |
| 0:39.8 | and all the experiences I'd had. |
| 0:43.8 | And I think it was brave. |
| 0:46.5 | And I need to honor the bravery in myself |
| 0:49.0 | so I can honor it in others. |
| 0:53.2 | The bravery is not about being fearless, |
| 0:57.0 | because I wasn't fearless. |
| 0:59.7 | But in walking with fear and through it, |
| 1:04.1 | when everything I thought I knew turned out to be flimsy and questionable. |
| 1:09.6 | And as I walked through it all, there was revelation, and there was |
| 1:14.1 | confusion, and there was discovery. Where for you is the most beautiful place in the world? |
| 1:24.5 | For Krista Tippett, it's a Spanish island village in the Mediterranean Sea. |
| 1:29.3 | Krista Tippett is a journalist, former diplomat and the longtime host of On Being. |
| 1:36.3 | Today, she shares a story of when she took a break from the intensity of her life and just stopped to check in with herself. |
| 1:43.3 | In this series, we blend immersed from the intensity of her life and just stopped to check in with herself. |
| 1:51.4 | In this series, we blend immersive first-person stories with brief mindfulness prompts from me. |
| 1:57.0 | I'm Rohan, your guide on this episode of Meditative Story. Thank you. story. Let's take a moment to check in, to check in, to listen to ourselves. |
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