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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Krista Tippett
Genre : Inspirational
Krista Tippett, a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, has interviewed some of the most extraordinary voices examining the great questions of meaning for our time: What does it mean to be human? What matters in a life? What matters in a death? How can we be of service to each other and the world?
In Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living, she has elegantly distilled the insights she has gained from these conversations into a narrative journey—an enriching and thoughtful read—one of my all-time favorites. As we grow older, the wisdom we gain comes from the raw materials of everyday living.
This book offers a hopeful vision of humanity in this 21st century. It is for people who want to take up the great questions of our time with imagination and courage, to nurture new realities in the spaces we inhabit, and to do so expectantly and with joy.
“Love is the only aspiration big enough for the immensity of human community and challenge in the 21st century. It is a word that is a bit ruined—something we routinely fall into and fall out of. As a pice of intelligence about what makes us human, and what we are capable of, it is a virtue and way of being we have scarcely begun to mine. People who have turned the world on its axis across history have called humanity to love. It’s time to dare this more bravely in our midst, and dare learning together how love can be practical, creative, and sustained as a social good, not merely a private good.”
“My life of conversation leads me to reimagine the very meaning of hope. I define hope as distinct from optimism or idealism. It has nothing to do with wishing. It references reality at every turn and reveres truth. It lives open-eyes and wholeheartedly with the darkness that is woven ineluctably into the light of life and sometimes seems to overcome it. Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory. It’s a renewable resource for moving through life as it is, not as we wish it to be.”
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