Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
We live in a world in love with the form of words that is an opinion and the way with words that is an argument. Yet it is a deep truth in life — as in science — that each of us is shaped as much by the quality of the questions we are asking as by the answers we have it in us to give. Precisely at a moment like this, of vast, aching, open questions, and very few answers we can agree on, our questions themselves become powerful tools for living and growing.
This is part of our On Being Foundations for Being Alive Now series. Four short offerings, more wisdom practice than podcast: life-giving, hope-generating words, ideas and practices that can literally shape your experience of reality — and shape what can become possible.
You can listen to all four "Foundations for Being Alive Now" here: onbeing.org/starting-points/foundations-for-being-alive-now
ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time
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Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more.
We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.
On Being with Krista Tippett: onbeing.org/series/podcast
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We live in a world in love with the form of words that is an opinion and the way with words that is an argument. Yet it is a deep truth in life — as in science — that each of us is shaped as much by the quality of the questions we are asking as by the answers we have it in us to give. Precisely at a moment like this, of vast, aching, open questions, and very few answers we can agree on, our questions themselves become powerful tools for living and growing.
This is part of our On Being Foundations for Being Alive Now series. Four short offerings, more wisdom practice than podcast: life-giving, hope-generating words, ideas and practices that can literally shape your experience of reality — and shape what can become possible.
You can listen to all four "Foundations for Being Alive Now" here: onbeing.org/starting-points/foundations-for-being-alive-now
ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time
THE PODCAST
Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more.
We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.
On Being with Krista Tippett: onbeing.org/series/podcast
STAY CONNECTED
Instagram: instagram.com/onbeing
Facebook: facebook.com/onbeing
The Pause Saturday email newsletter: onbeing.org/newsletter
#onbeing #kristatippett #wisdom #theartofliving #questions #foundationsnation #personalgrowth #podcast
