Krista Tippett Quotes

In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.

You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

You can't run away from yourself

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it

You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

I needed a break... from myself.

They say you'll be blooming when you're in love; I agree, but what is important to bloom is taking care of yourself, too.

If you have everything you want in life, including money, fame and being asked out on dates by 20 cute boys, and you are still unhappy then you have to go deep within yourself to fix the issue.

Living, breathing, and being present is the practice that can lead us to having a full and authentic in-the-body experience. If we can shift our perspective from being separate to being part of it all, psychological hang-ups, insecurities, fears, and disorders dissolve.

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

I think beauty shows exteriorly what you are feeling inside; so if you are not in a great mood, it shows on your face a lot.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.