For 20 years Krista Tippett has been, in her words, "listening to the world and being in a radio and podcast conversation with wise and graceful lives" with her program, On Being. In this hope-filled TED Talk she shares three "arts of living" that have persistently emerged from those conversations. "Callings," she says. "Each of them carries practices towards what it might mean for each of us to participate as we move forward in the remaking of this world."
"The first is to see the generative story, the generative narrative of our time. We are fluent in and very familiar with the narrative of catastrophe and dysfunction and disarray. And that is real. But it's not the whole story of us. There is also an abundant reality of things going right at any given time. Of learning and growth that are happening, of evolution and breakthrough."
You see why she had me at "hello". I write this letter to cast a light on the myriad generative stories that somehow don't make it into most news feeds. As she says, there is immense power in seeing, naming and sharing stories of the many who are "standing before a world in pain. They are working with forms that are broken. They're probably working in institutions that don't quite make sense anymore, and they're having an edifying effect on the people around them, becoming healers and social creatives in so many forms."
TED Talk: 3 Practices for Wisdom and Wholeness
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