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Fear usually looks like anger.
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Anger
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Compassion is a spiritual technology.
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Peace
Technology
Spiritual
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If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.
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Cant
Ifs
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Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.
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Kindness
Everyday
Virtue
Virtues
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[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.
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Kindness
Form
Instant Gratification
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Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.
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Ascent
Cerebral
Tolerance
Virtue
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Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.
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Ascent
Tolerance
Virtue
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Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.
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Calm
Structure
Toddler
Calms
Toddlers
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Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.
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Space
Interviews
Virtue
Intellectually
Interview
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You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.
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Turning
Day Every Day Perfect
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You are not going to be perfect every day. It’s about turning up the next day and doing it again.
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Next
Next Day
Perfect
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The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.
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In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry
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Art
Language
Way
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I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.
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Big Ideas
Human Experience
Real Life
Theology
Tracing
Life Experience Real
Intersection
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I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.
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Issues
Thinking
Two Sides
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I don't accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.
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Middle Ground
Sides
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You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
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Doctrine
Opinion
Persons
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I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because I'm speaking as myself.
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Religious Life
Speaking
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What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.
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Compassion
Liberating
Problem
Rising
Ultimate
Virtue
Richest
Sources
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How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.
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Home
Essentials
Gone
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Strong religious identities survive and thrive. But more than ever before, even in their most conservative iterations, they are chosen.
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Chosen
Conservative
Thrive
Identities
Survive
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Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.
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Work
Compassion
Vocabulary
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Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.
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Answers
Birthright
Grasping
Theology
Narrow
Religious People
Shut
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My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.
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Depression
Divorce
Special
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Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think its about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.
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Buddhist
Hurt
Real
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Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think it's about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.
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Awake
Being Real
Buddhist
Hurt
Mindfulness
Straight
Present
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Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.
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Intelligence
Wisdom
Wise
Exercise
Capacities
Creature
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I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.
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Divinity
Educated
Europe
Perspective
School
Early 1990S
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One of the things I reject in our cultural divisions is the clash between faith and reason, and I would say the same about mystery and intellect. They are somehow mysteriously akin to each other.
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Clash
Intellect
Cultural
Divisions
Reject
Somehow
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Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.
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Doe
Reality
Silence
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If we cant face our losses, we cant be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.
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Cutting
Loss
People
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Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.
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Peace
Technology
Becoming One
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If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.
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Aspects
Fully
Losses
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Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.
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Division
Mass Destruction
Weapons
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For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children of your own that brings an urgency to the question of what you believe.
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Having Children
Urgency
Brings
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Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other.
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God
Compassion
Religious
Soul
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For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.
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Names
Our World
Voice
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Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.
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Acknowledge
Enriching
Not Perfect
Perfect
Sadness
Spirituality
Theology
Thinking
Life Experience Thinking
Important Part
Wanting
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