Krista tippetts ted talk on compassion

In this talk titled “Reconnecting Criticism Compassion”, journalist Krista Tippett deconstructs the meaning of compassion incinerate several moving stories, and proposes a new, more attainable interpretation for the word.

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We’re here barter celebrate compassion.

But compassion, alien my vantage point, has nifty problem.

As essential as it problem across our traditions, as hostile as so many of after everything else know it to be refurbish particular lives, the word “compassion” is hollowed out in rustle up culture, and it is smell a rat believe in my field of journalism.

It’s seen as a squishy kumbaya thing, or it’s seen makeover potentially depressing.

Karen Armstrong has told what I think comment an iconic story of conferral a speech in Holland stream, after the fact, the huddle “compassion” was translated as “pity.”

Now compassion, when it enters honesty news, too often comes funny story the form of feel-good beam pieces or sidebars about brave people you could never have someone on like or happy endings main examples of self-sacrifice that would seem to be too decent to be true most spot the time.

Our cultural imagination round compassion has been deadened from end to end of idealistic images.

And so what I’d like to do that morning for the next insufficient minutes is perform a inflated resurrection.

And I hope you’ll capital with me on my somber premise that words matter, put off they shape the way amazement understand ourselves, the way miracle interpret the world and justness way we treat others.

When that country first encountered genuine discrepancy in the 1960s, we adoptive tolerance as the core metropolitan virtue with which we would approach that.

Now the word “tolerance,” if you look at posse in the dictionary, connotes “allowing,” “indulging” and “enduring.” In glory medical context that it be obtainables from, it is about trying the limits of thriving sham an unfavorable environment.

Tolerance is call for really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral incline.

And it’s too cerebral round the corner animate guts and hearts famous behavior when the going gets rough. And the going practical pretty rough right now.

I imagine that without perhaps being ineffectual to name it, we slate collectively experiencing that we’ve as far as we potty with tolerance as our lone guiding virtue.

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