Krista Tippett: What we discover when we’re not looking
Meditative Story
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4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Krista Tippett’s early years aren't what you’d expect knowing who she is today. As a journalist and political aide in divided Berlin in the '80s, she led a life of importance, where she was surrounded by power, where every decision mattered. But when a window opened to step away from that heady life, she found a new space – and time to ask herself what mattered. She shares her story to remind us how we can find meaning in unexpected places.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Rohan. |
| 0:02.0 | With some exciting news to share, Meditative Story is now on YouTube. |
| 0:07.6 | So you can now experience full length stories with gorgeous visual backgrounds, short clips |
| 0:12.9 | from our storytellers and even some meditation videos from me, which I love to record out |
| 0:18.7 | in nature. |
| 0:20.2 | We hope you'll come along for this new venture. |
| 0:22.6 | You can follow the channel at meditatastory.com forward slash YouTube. |
| 0:28.0 | Looking back, if I could change something, I wish I'd been kinder to myself all along. |
| 0:45.0 | A year or so ago, I was telling someone this story of my 20s and they said, how did you |
| 0:55.2 | get to be so brave? |
| 0:58.4 | And I realized I'd never given myself any credit for being brave. |
| 1:03.5 | I was always second-guessing myself or planning what I had to do next. |
| 1:09.8 | I didn't give myself credit for how far I'd come and all the experiences I'd had. |
| 1:17.4 | And I think it was brave. |
| 1:19.8 | And I need to honor the bravery in myself so I can honor it in others. |
| 1:26.6 | The bravery is not about being fearless because I wasn't fearless. |
| 1:33.3 | But in walking with fear and through it, when everything I thought I knew turned out |
| 1:39.2 | to be flimsy and questionable. |
| 1:42.8 | And as I walked through it all, there was revelation and there was confusion and there |
| 1:48.8 | was discovery. |
| 1:53.3 | Where for you is the most beautiful place in the world. |
| 1:57.7 | For Christa Tippet is a Spanish island village in the Mediterranean Sea. |
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