Speak Hope into Vitality
Guided by Krista
Listen daily until you move on to the next Wisdom Practice.
Journal with the ideas, the questions, and invitations raised. Pay attention to how these things surface in your thoughts, in your body, and in interactions and experiences as you move through your days.
Use the Question to Live and Integration Step as further prompts for practicing, and for journaling.
You’re building spiritual and moral muscle memory.
Transcript
Krista Tippett: As you move through your days with Ocean Vuong’s wisdom, ponder the idea that the future is in your mouth. Commit to taking care with the power of your words. What would you include in a vocabulary of muscular hope — which is to say, a vocabulary that makes what is life-giving and redemptive and transformative more likely and more possible? I’d also say, notice the metaphors of violence and death that you hear around you, that cross your lips. Feel how powerful they are, and question how naturally they come.
Consider these words of Ocean Vuong. “As a species, as life on Earth, we’ve been dying for millennia. But I don’t think energy dies. It’s transformed. And when you’re using language, you can create it, use it to divide people and build walls, or you can turn it into something where we can see each other more clearly as a bridge.” And this: “What happens if we alter our language? Where would our future be? Where will we grow towards, if we start to think differently about how the world is?”
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