Krista Tippett is the host of On Being, the Peabody Award-winning public radio show and podcast. On Being opens up the animating questions at the center of human life. What does it mean to be human and how do we want to live? Krista is the author of “Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters” and “Einstein’s God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit.”

In this episode, Eric and Krista talk about what it means to be human and the importance of learning to listen when asking the big questions in life.

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In This Interview, Krista Tippett and I Discuss Being Human and …

Her work as a journalist trying to bring humanness to the stories
How science and religion ask different questions
Listening is a spiritual virtue that we need to cultivate
The big question of what it means to be human
Loving and living life’s questions
Paradox and ambiguity of human existence
Having a reverence for mystery
Depression as a black pandora’s box
The things that go wrong for us become part of our gifts to the world
The path to spiritual genius is through being fully human
Spirituality is the inner work that accompanies the outer work of our lives
Humor as a spiritual virtue
How she has never met a wise person who does not laugh often

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