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From the Ted Talk by Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion

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Open Cloze

And I'll never forget _______ that _____ from Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, who told it to me as her grandfather told it to her, that in the beginning of the Creation something happened and the original light of the universe was shattered into _________ pieces. It lodged as shards inside every aspect of the Creation. And that the highest human _______ is to look for this light, to point at it when we see it, to gather it up, and in so doing, to repair the _____. Now this might sound like a fanciful tale. Some of my fellow journalists might interpret it that way. Rachel Naomi Remen says this is an important and __________ story for our time, because this story insists that each and every one of us, frail and ______ as we may be, inadequate as we may feel, has exactly what's needed to help repair the part of the world that we can see and _____.

Solution

  1. countless
  2. story
  3. empowering
  4. hearing
  5. calling
  6. flawed
  7. touch
  8. world

Original Text

And I'll never forget hearing that story from Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, who told it to me as her grandfather told it to her, that in the beginning of the Creation something happened and the original light of the universe was shattered into countless pieces. It lodged as shards inside every aspect of the Creation. And that the highest human calling is to look for this light, to point at it when we see it, to gather it up, and in so doing, to repair the world. Now this might sound like a fanciful tale. Some of my fellow journalists might interpret it that way. Rachel Naomi Remen says this is an important and empowering story for our time, because this story insists that each and every one of us, frail and flawed as we may be, inadequate as we may feel, has exactly what's needed to help repair the part of the world that we can see and touch.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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