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Mar 2024
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How to find wisdom and wholeness in a mo...

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Keeping hope and courage alive before the many pains and promises of the world can be tough. So how do you do it?

Journalist and host of podcast On Being, Krista Tippett, has spent a career interviewing some of the world's wisest people in search of answers to that question. Krista shares with Chris her thoughts on how to coexist with life’s existential questions, dives into the state of spirituality in modern life — and makes a case for finding the fundamental goodness that we all have to offer.

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