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Becoming wise : an inquiry into the mystery and art of living /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2016Description: xii, 288 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1594206805
  • 9781594206801
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 158.1 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ1589 .T57 2016
Contents:
Introduction: The age of us -- Words : the poetry of creatures -- Flesh : the body's grace -- Love : a few things I've learned -- Faith : the evolution -- Hope : reimagined.
Summary: In Becoming Wise, Tippett distills the insights she has gleaned from her public radio program and podcast "On Being." This book offers a grounded and fiercely hopeful vision of humanity for this century--of personal growth but also renewed public life and human spiritual evolution.Summary: Tippett has interviewed the most extraordinary voices examining the great questions of meaning for our time. Here, she distills the insights she has gleaned from these luminous conversations into a coherent narrative journey, over time and from mind to mind. The enduring question of what it means to be human has now become inextricable from the question of who we are to each other.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 158.1 TIP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000543524

Includes index.

Introduction: The age of us -- Words : the poetry of creatures -- Flesh : the body's grace -- Love : a few things I've learned -- Faith : the evolution -- Hope : reimagined.

In Becoming Wise, Tippett distills the insights she has gleaned from her public radio program and podcast "On Being." This book offers a grounded and fiercely hopeful vision of humanity for this century--of personal growth but also renewed public life and human spiritual evolution.

Tippett has interviewed the most extraordinary voices examining the great questions of meaning for our time. Here, she distills the insights she has gleaned from these luminous conversations into a coherent narrative journey, over time and from mind to mind. The enduring question of what it means to be human has now become inextricable from the question of who we are to each other.

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