Stay Awake
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: How to stay awake now that the pandemic, the civilizational earthquake of our young century, has shaken you awake? And you might spend some time musing, meditating, writing about the hopeful story of our time that you can see from where you sit, that you can tell and are part of that the world doesn’t yet know how to see and to tell.
Consider these words of Rebecca Solnit as a thought experiment you can carry through your days. She says, “Whenever I look around me, I wonder what old things are about to bear fruit, what seemingly solid institutions might soon rupture, and what seeds we might now be planting whose harvest will come at some unpredictable moment in the future.
