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Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion
Krista Tipet: Ponovno povezivanje sa saosećanjem
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Termin "saosećanje", koji se tipično vezuje za svetovno, je izgubio dodir sa realnošću. Na specijalnoj konferenciji TEDPrize u UN, novinar Krista Tipet analizira značenje reči saosećanje kroz nekoliko dirljivih priča i predlaže novu, prihvatljiviju definiciju ove reči.
Krista Tippett - Journalist
Krista Tippett hosts the national public radio program "On Being," which takes up the great, animating questions of human life: What does it mean to be human? And how do we want to live? Full bio
Krista Tippett hosts the national public radio program "On Being," which takes up the great, animating questions of human life: What does it mean to be human? And how do we want to live? Full bio
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We're here to celebrate compassion.
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Ovde smo da slavimo saosećanje.
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But compassion, from my vantage point,
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Ali saosećanje, sa moje tačke gledišta,
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has a problem.
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ima problem.
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As essential as it is across our traditions,
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Koliko god da je neizostavno u našim tradicijama,
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as real as so many of us know it to be
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koliko god da je prisutno
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in particular lives,
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u nečijim životima,
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the word "compassion" is hollowed out in our culture,
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reč "saosećanje" je ofucana kroz našu kulturu,
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and it is suspect in my field of journalism.
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i uvek je pod lupom sumnje u novinarstvu.
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It's seen as a squishy kumbaya thing,
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Na to se gleda kao na neku kumbaja stvar.
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or it's seen as potentially depressing.
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Ili kao potencijalno depresivnu stvar.
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Karen Armstrong has told what I think is an iconic story
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Karen Armstrong je ispričala, po mom mišljenju, jednu veoma simboličnu priču
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of giving a speech in Holland
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o držanju govora u Holandiji
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and, after the fact, the word "compassion"
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gde je reč "saosećanje"
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was translated as "pity."
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prevedena kao sažaljenje.
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Now compassion, when it enters the news,
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Kada se saosećanje pojavi u vestima
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too often comes in the form
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prečesto je to u formi
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of feel-good feature pieces
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reportaža koje čine da se dobro osećate
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or sidebars about heroic people
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ili onih o herojima
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you could never be like
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kakvi vi nikada ne biste mogli biti,
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or happy endings
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ili srećnim završecima
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or examples of self-sacrifice
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kao i primeri samožrtvovanja
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that would seem to be too good to be true
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koji bi delovali previše dobro da bi bili istiniti,
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most of the time.
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u većini slučajeva.
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Our cultural imagination about compassion
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Naša kulturološka zamisao saosećanja
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has been deadened by idealistic images.
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je umrtvljena idealističkim slikama.
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And so what I'd like to do this morning
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I ono što bih ja volela da uradim ovog jutra,
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for the next few minutes
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tokom sledećih nekoliko minuta
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is perform a linguistic resurrection.
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je da izvedem lingvističko vaskrsnuće.
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And I hope you'll come with me on my basic premise
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I nadam se da ćete se složiti sa mnom
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that words matter,
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da reči jesu važne,
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that they shape the way we understand ourselves,
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da one oblikuju način na koji razumemo sebe,
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the way we interpret the world
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na koji interpretiramo svet
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and the way we treat others.
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kao i način na koji tretiramo druge.
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When this country
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Kada se ova zemlja
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first encountered genuine diversity
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prvi put suočila sa raznolikošću
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in the 1960s,
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u šezdesetim godinama XX veka,
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we adopted tolerance
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usvojili smo toleranciju
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as the core civic virtue
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kao osnovnu građansku vrlinu
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with which we would approach that.
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na osnovu koje bismo delali.
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Now the word "tolerance," if you look at it in the dictionary,
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Sada, reč "tolerancija", ako pogledate u rečniku,
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connotes "allowing," "indulging"
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sugeriše dopuštanje, udovoljavanje
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and "enduring."
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i podnošenje.
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In the medical context that it comes from,
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Medicinsko značenje, odakle i potiče, podrazumeva
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it is about testing the limits of thriving
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testiranje granica napredovanja
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in an unfavorable environment.
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u nepovoljnim uslovima.
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Tolerance is not really a lived virtue;
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Tolerancija nije baš stvarna vrlina,
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it's more of a cerebral ascent.
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više je cerebralni uspon.
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And it's too cerebral
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I previše je cerebralni
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to animate guts and hearts
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da bi animirao hrabrost i srce
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and behavior
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i ponašanje
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when the going gets rough.
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kada okolnosti nisu sjajne.
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And the going is pretty rough right now.
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A okolnosti nisu baš sjajne upravo sada.
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I think that without perhaps being able to name it,
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Mislim da možda bez sposobnosti imenovanja
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we are collectively experiencing
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mi kolektivno osećamo
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that we've come as far as we can
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da smo dostigli dokle smo mogli
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with tolerance as our only guiding virtue.
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sa tolerancijom kao našom jedinom vrlinom vodiljom.
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Compassion is a worthy successor.
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Saosećanje je dostojan sledbenik.
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It is organic,
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Prirodno je,
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across our religious, spiritual and ethical traditions,
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prisutno u našim religioznim, spiritualnim i etičkim tradicijama,
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and yet it transcends them.
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a opet ih prevazilazi.
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Compassion is a piece of vocabulary
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Saosećanje je deo vokabulara
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that could change us if we truly let it sink into
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koji bi mogao da nas promeni ako zaista dozvolimo
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the standards to which we hold ourselves and others,
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da uplovi u standarde po kojim živimo,
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both in our private and in our civic spaces.
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kojih se držimo i u svojim privatnim i civilnim prostorima.
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So what is it, three-dimensionally?
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Da li to znači da je trodimenzionalno?
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What are its kindred and component parts?
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Koji su njegovi srodni i sastavni delovi?
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What's in its universe of attendant virtues?
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Koje druge vrline ga čine?
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To start simply,
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Počela bih jednostavno.
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I want to say that compassion is kind.
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Želim reći da je saosećanje ljubazno.
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Now "kindness" might sound like a very mild word,
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Sada, ljubaznost može biti veoma blaga reč
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and it's prone to its own abundant cliche.
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i sklona je svom klišeu.
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But kindness is an everyday byproduct
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Ali ljubaznost je svakodnevni nusprodukt
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of all the great virtues.
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među svim velikim vrlinama.
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And it is a most edifying form
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I to je najpoučnija forma
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of instant gratification.
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trenutnog zadovoljenja.
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Compassion is also curious.
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Saosećanje je takođe radoznalo.
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Compassion cultivates and practices curiosity.
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Saosećanje neguje i vežba radoznalost.
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I love a phrase that was offered me
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Jako volim frazu koja mi je ponuđena
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by two young women
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od strane dveju mladih žena
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who are interfaith innovators in Los Angeles,
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koje su međuverski inovatori u Los Anđelesu,
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Aziza Hasan and Malka Fenyvesi.
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Aziza Hasan i Malka Fenivesi.
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They are working to create a new imagination
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One rade na stvaranju nove imaginacije
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about shared life among young Jews and Muslims,
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o zajedničkom životu mladih Jevreja i Muslimana.
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and as they do that, they cultivate what they call
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I tokom svog rada one kultivišu, takozvanu
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"curiosity without assumptions."
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"radoznalost bez pretpostavki".
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Well that's going to be a breeding ground for compassion.
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Pa, to će biti plodno tlo za saosećanje.
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Compassion can be synonymous with empathy.
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Saosećanje može biti sinonim empatiji.
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It can be joined with the harder work
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Može biti udruženo sa napornijim radom
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of forgiveness and reconciliation,
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oprosta i pomirenja,
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but it can also express itself
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ali može se i izraziti
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in the simple act of presence.
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u jednostavnom aktu prisustva.
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It's linked to practical virtues
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Povezano je sa praktičnim vrlinama
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like generosity and hospitality
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kao što su velikodušnost i gostoprimstvo
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and just being there,
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i sa nečijim prisustvom kada nam je potrebno,
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just showing up.
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samo kada je neko tu, uz nas.
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I think that compassion
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Mislim da je saosećanje
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also is often linked to beauty --
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ponekad u vezi sa lepotom
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and by that I mean a willingness
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i pod tim podrazumevam volju
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to see beauty in the other,
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da vidimo lepotu u drugima,
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not just what it is about them
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a ne samo ono što
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that might need helping.
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je potrebno popraviti.
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I love it that my Muslim conversation partners
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Jako mi se dopada što moji muslimanski partneri u razgovoru
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often speak of beauty as a core moral value.
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često govore o lepoti kao srži moralne vrednosti.
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And in that light, for the religious,
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I u tom svetlu, za religiozne,
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compassion also brings us
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saosećanje nas takođe odvodi
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into the territory of mystery --
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na teritoriju misterije
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encouraging us not just
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ohrabruje nas da vidimo
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to see beauty,
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ne samo lepotu,
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but perhaps also to look for the face of God
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nego možda da i potražimo lice Boga,
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in the moment of suffering,
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u trenutku patnje,
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in the face of a stranger,
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u licu stranca
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in the face of the vibrant religious other.
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u licima naših saputnika u religiji.
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I'm not sure if I can show you
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Nisam sigurna da vam mogu pokazati
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what tolerance looks like,
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kako izgleda tolerancija,
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but I can show you what compassion looks like --
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ali vam mogu pokazati kako saosećanje izgleda -
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because it is visible.
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zato što je vidljivo.
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When we see it, we recognize it
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Kada naiđemo na saosećanje, mi ga prepoznamo
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and it changes the way we think about what is doable,
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i ono pormeni način na koji razmišljamo o tome šta se može učiniti,
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what is possible.
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šta je moguće.
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It is so important
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Veoma je važno da,
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when we're communicating big ideas --
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kada govorimo o velikim idejama,
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but especially a big spiritual idea like compassion --
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ali pogotovu velikim i spiritualnim, kao što je saosećanje,
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to root it as we present it to others
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da ih ukorenimo dok ih predstavljamo drugima
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in space and time and flesh and blood --
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u prostoru i vremenu i krvi i mesu,
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the color and complexity of life.
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u boji i složenosti života.
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And compassion does seek physicality.
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I saosećanje govori o fizikalnosti.
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I first started to learn this most vividly
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Najvernije sam učila o ovome
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from Matthew Sanford.
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od Metjua Senforda.
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And I don't imagine that you will realize this
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I mislim da ovo nećete shvatiti
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when you look at this photograph of him,
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kada pogledate njegovu fotografiju,
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but he's paraplegic.
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ali on je paraplegičar.
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He's been paralyzed from the waist down since he was 13,
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Paralizovan je od struka na dole od svoje trinaeste godine
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in a car crash that killed his father and his sister.
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posle saobraćajne nesreće u kojoj je izgubio oca i sestru.
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Matthew's legs don't work, and he'll never walk again,
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Metjuove noge ne funkcionišu i on neće ponovo hodati
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and -- and he does experience this as an "and"
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i - i on zaista doživljava sve radije kao "i"
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rather than a "but" --
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nego kao "ali" -
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and he experiences himself
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i on doživljava sebe
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to be healed and whole.
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kao celog i izlečenog.
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And as a teacher of yoga,
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I kao instruktor joge,
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he brings that experience to others
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on omogućava drugima da dožive isto
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across the spectrum of ability and disability,
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kroz spektar sposobnosti i nesposobnosti,
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health, illness and aging.
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zdravlja, bolesti i starenja.
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He says that he's just at an extreme end
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On kaže da je on samo na samom kraju
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of the spectrum we're all on.
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spektra na kom smo svi mi.
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He's doing some amazing work now
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On sada radi nešto zadivljujuće
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with veterans coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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sa veteranima iz Iraka i Avganistana.
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And Matthew has made this remarkable observation
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I Metju je zapazio nešto izuzetno,
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that I'm just going to offer you and let it sit.
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a to ću vam predstaviti i ostaviti da odstoji.
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I can't quite explain it, and he can't either.
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Ne mogu to tačno da objasnim, a ne može ni on.
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But he says that he has yet to experience someone
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Ali on kaže da još nije upoznao onoga
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who became more aware of their body,
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ko je postao svesniji svog tela
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in all its frailty and its grace,
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u svoj njegovoj krhkosti i gracioznosti,
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without, at the same time,
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bez toga da je istovremeno
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becoming more compassionate towards all of life.
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zauzeo saosećajniji stav prema životu.
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Compassion also looks like this.
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I tako izgleda saosećanje.
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This is Jean Vanier.
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Ovo je Žan Vanijer.
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Jean Vanier helped found the L'Arche communities,
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Žan Vanijer je pomogao osnivanje L'Arche zajednica,
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which you can now find all over the world,
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kakve sada možeti pronaći po celom svetu,
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communities centered around life
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zajednice koje su fokusirane na život
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with people with mental disabilities --
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ljudi sa mentalnim poremećajima -
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mostly Down syndrome.
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uglavnom sa Daunovim sindromom.
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The communities that Jean Vanier founded,
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Zajednice koje je Žan Vanijer osnovao,
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like Jean Vanier himself,
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kao i on sam,
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exude tenderness.
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odišu nežnošću.
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"Tender" is another word
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"Nežan" je još jedna reč
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I would love to spend some time resurrecting.
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na čijem uskrsnuću bih posvetila neko vreme.
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We spend so much time in this culture
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Provodimo mnogo vremena u ovoj kulturi
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being driven and aggressive,
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agresivni i brzopleti,
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and I spend a lot of time being those things too.
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pa i ja se tako ponekad ponašam.
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And compassion can also have those qualities.
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I saosećanje može imati te osobine, kao kvalitete.
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But again and again, lived compassion
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Ali opet i opet, proživljavanje saosećanja
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brings us back to the wisdom of tenderness.
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dovodi nas nazad na mudrost nežnosti.
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Jean Vanier says
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Žan Vanijer kaže
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that his work,
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da njegovo delo,
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like the work of other people --
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kao i dela drugih ljudi,
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his great, beloved, late friend Mother Teresa --
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njegove velike, voljene, pokojne prijateljice Majke Tereze,
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is never in the first instance about changing the world;
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nikad se ne zasniva na želji da promene svet,
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it's in the first instance about changing ourselves.
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već na menjanju nas samih.
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He's says that what they do with L'Arche
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On kaže da ono što rade sa L'Arche zajednicom
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is not a solution, but a sign.
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nije rešenje, nego znak.
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Compassion is rarely a solution,
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Saosećanje je retko rešenje,
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but it is always a sign of a deeper reality,
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ali je uvek znak dublje realnosti,
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of deeper human possibilities.
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većih ljudskih mogućnosti.
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And compassion is unleashed
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I saosećanje se oslobađa
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in wider and wider circles
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kroz šire i šire krugove
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by signs and stories,
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pomoću znakova i priča,
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never by statistics and strategies.
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nikada putem statistika i strategija.
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We need those things too,
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Potrebne su nam i one,
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but we're also bumping up against their limits.
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ali takođe nailazimo na njihova ograničenja.
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And at the same time that we are doing that,
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I u to isto vreme,
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I think we are rediscovering the power of story --
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mislim da ponovo otkrivamo moć priče,
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that as human beings, we need stories
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kao i da su nam, kao ljudskim bićima, potrebne priče
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to survive, to flourish,
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da preživimo, da procvetamo,
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to change.
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da se menjamo.
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Our traditions have always known this,
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Naše tradicije su ovo uvek znale
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and that is why they have always cultivated stories at their heart
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i zbog toga su uvek uzgajane priče
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and carried them forward in time for us.
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i prenošene s kolena na koleno.
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There is, of course, a story
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Postoji, naravno, priča
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behind the key moral longing
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iza ključne moralne čežnje
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and commandment of Judaism
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i zapovesti Judaizma
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to repair the world -- tikkun olam.
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da svet treba popraviti - tikkun olam.
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And I'll never forget hearing that story
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Nikada neću zaboraviti priču koju mi je ispričala
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from Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen,
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dr Rejčel Naomi Remen,
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who told it to me as her grandfather told it to her,
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koja ju je čula od svog dede, a to je
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that in the beginning of the Creation
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da se na početku Stvaranja
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something happened
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nešto desilo
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and the original light of the universe
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i da se prvobitno svetlo univerzuma
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was shattered into countless pieces.
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razbilo u nebrojivo mnogo delova.
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It lodged as shards
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A delovi su se smestili
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inside every aspect of the Creation.
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unutar svakog aspekta Stvaranja.
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And that the highest human calling
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I da je najuzvišeniji ljudski poziv
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is to look for this light, to point at it when we see it,
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da traži ovo svetlo, da ga nađe,
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to gather it up,
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sakupi
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and in so doing, to repair the world.
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i na taj način popravi svet.
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Now this might sound like a fanciful tale.
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Ovo možda deluje kao neka beznačajna pričica.
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Some of my fellow journalists might interpret it that way.
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Neke moje kolege bi je mogle tako interpretirati.
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Rachel Naomi Remen says
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Rejčel Naomi Remen kaže
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this is an important and empowering story
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da je ovo važna i ohrabrujuća priča
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for our time,
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za naše vreme,
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because this story insists
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jer insistira na
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that each and every one of us,
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tome da svako od nas
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frail and flawed as we may be,
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koliko god mana da ima,
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inadequate as we may feel,
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koliko god da se neadekvatnim oseća,
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has exactly what's needed
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ima upravo to što je potrebno
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to help repair the part of the world
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da doprinese boljitku sveta
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that we can see and touch.
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vidljivom i opipljivom.
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Stories like this,
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Priče, poput ove,
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signs like this,
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ovakvi znaci
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are practical tools
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su praktično oruđe
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in a world longing to bring compassion
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u svetu koji čezne za saosećanjem
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to abundant images of suffering
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da bi napustio slike patnje
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that can otherwise overwhelm us.
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koje ga u suprotnom mogu preplaviti.
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Rachel Naomi Remen
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Rejčel Naomi Remen
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is actually bringing compassion
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zapravo daje saosećanju
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back to its rightful place alongside science
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njegovo pravo mesto pored nauke
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in her field of medicine
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u svojoj sferi medicine
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in the training of new doctors.
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tokom obučavanja novih doktora.
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And this trend
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I ovaj trend
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of what Rachel Naomi Remen is doing,
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koji Rejčel Naomi Remen uvodi,
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how these kinds of virtues
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kako ovakve vrline
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are finding a place in the vocabulary of medicine --
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pronalaze mesto u medicinskom vokabularu -
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the work Fred Luskin is doing --
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kroz rad Freda Luskina -
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I think this is one of the most fascinating developments
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mislim da je to jedno od najfascinantnijih razvoja
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of the 21st century --
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XXI veka -
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that science, in fact,
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da nauka, zapravo
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is taking a virtue like compassion
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uzima vrlinu, kao što je saosećanje,
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definitively out of the realm of idealism.
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iz carstva idealizma.
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This is going to change science, I believe,
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Ovo će promeniti nauku, verujem
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and it will change religion.
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i da će promeniti religiju.
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But here's a face
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Ali evo lica
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from 20th century science
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iz oblasti nauke XX veka
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that might surprise you
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čija bi vas pojava mogla iznenaditi
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in a discussion about compassion.
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u diskusiji o saosećanju.
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We all know about the Albert Einstein
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Svi znamo za Alberta Ajnštajna
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who came up with E = mc2.
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koji je pronašao, E = mc2.
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We don't hear so much about the Einstein
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Ali ne čujemo često da je Ajnštajn
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who invited the African American opera singer, Marian Anderson,
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pozvao afričkoameričku opersku pevačicu Marijanu Anderson
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to stay in his home when she came to sing in Princeton
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da odsedne kod njega kada je došla da peva na Prinstonu
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because the best hotel there
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zato što najbolji hotel tamo
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was segregated and wouldn't have her.
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nije hteo da je primi.
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We don't hear about the Einstein who used his celebrity
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Ne čujemo o tome da je Ajnštajn koristio svoju slavu
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to advocate for political prisoners in Europe
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da podrži političke zatvorenike u Evropi
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or the Scottsboro boys
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ili Skotsboro dečake
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in the American South.
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na američkom Jugu.
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Einstein believed deeply
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Ajnštajn je duboko verovao
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that science should transcend
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da bi nauka trebalo da prevaziđe
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national and ethnic divisions.
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nacionalne i etničke podele.
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But he watched physicists and chemists
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Ali video je kako fizičari i hemičari
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become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction
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postaju snadbevači oružja za masovnu destrukciju
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in the early 20th century.
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tokom početka XX veka.
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He once said that science in his generation
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Jednom je rekao da je nauka njegove generacije
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had become like a razor blade
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postala kao oštrica
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in the hands of a three-year-old.
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u rukama trogodišnjeg deteta.
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And Einstein foresaw
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I on je predvideo
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that as we grow more modern
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da nam je, kako se modernizujemo
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and technologically advanced,
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i tehnički unapređujemo,
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we need the virtues
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potrebno više, a ne manje, vrlina
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our traditions carry forward in time
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koje su naše generacije
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more, not less.
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prenosile decenijama s kolena na koleno.
11:43
He liked to talk about the spiritual geniuses of the ages.
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Voleo je da govori o duhovnim vođama.
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Some of his favorites were Moses,
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Neki od njegovih omiljenih bili su Mojsije,
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Jesus, Buddha, St. Francis of Assisi,
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Isus, Buda, Sveti Francis od Asisija,
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Gandhi -- he adored his contemporary, Gandhi.
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Gandi - on je obožavao svog savremenika, Gandija.
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And Einstein said --
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I Ajnštajn je rekao
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and I think this is a quote,
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i mislim da su ovo baš njegove reči,
11:59
again, that has not been passed down in his legacy --
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opet, to se ne smatra njegovim zaveštanjem,
12:01
that "these kinds of people
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da su "takve vrste ljudi",
12:03
are geniuses in the art of living,
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geniji umetnosti življenja,
12:05
more necessary
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važniji
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to the dignity, security and joy of humanity
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za dostojanstvo, sigurnost i sreću ljudske rase
12:10
than the discoverers of objective knowledge."
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od pronalazača objektivnih znanja."
12:15
Now invoking Einstein
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Pozivanje na Ajnštajna možda sada
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might not seem the best way to bring compassion down to earth
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ne deluje kao najbolji način da se efikasno podseti na saosećanje
12:20
and make it seem accessible to all the rest of us,
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i da se ono učini dostupnim svima nama,
12:22
but actually it is.
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ali zapravo, jeste.
12:25
I want to show you
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Želim da vam pokažem
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the rest of this photograph,
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ostatak ove fotografije
12:30
because this photograph
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zato što je ona
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is analogous to what we do to the word "compassion" in our culture --
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analogna tome što radimo sa rečju saosećanje u našoj kulturi -
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we clean it up
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mi je pročistimo
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and we diminish its depths and its grounding
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i umanjimo njenu dubinu i temelje,
12:40
in life, which is messy.
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njen značaj u životu.
12:42
So in this photograph
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Tako, na ovoj fotografiji
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you see a mind looking out a window
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vidite um koji gleda kroz prozor
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at what might be a cathedral -- it's not.
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u nešto što liči na katedralu, ali nije.
12:48
This is the full photograph,
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Ovo je cela fotografija
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and you see a middle-aged man wearing a leather jacket,
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na kojoj vidite sredovečnog čoveka koji nosi kožnu jaknu
12:52
smoking a cigar.
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i puši cigaretu.
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And by the look of that paunch,
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I po izgledu njegovog stomaka,
12:56
he hasn't been doing enough yoga.
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on nije radio dovoljno joge.
12:58
We put these two photographs side-by-side on our website,
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Stavili smo ove dve fotografije jednu pored druge na naš sajt
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and someone said, "When I look at the first photo,
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i neko je rekao: "Kada pogledam u prvu fotografiju,
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I ask myself, what was he thinking?
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zapitam se, o čemu li je razmišljao u tom trenutku.
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And when I look at the second, I ask,
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A kada pogledam u drugu, pomislim,
13:07
what kind of person was he? What kind of man is this?"
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kakva li je osoba bio. Kakav čovek je bio?"
13:10
Well, he was complicated.
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Pa, bio je komplikovan.
13:12
He was incredibly compassionate
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Neverovatno saosećajan
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in some of his relationships
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sa nekim ljudima,
13:16
and terribly inadequate in others.
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dok je sa drugima bio prilično neadekvatan.
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And it is much harder, often,
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A mnogo je teže, ponekad,
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to be compassionate towards those closest to us,
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biti saosećajan prema onima koji su nam najbliži
13:26
which is another quality in the universe of compassion,
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što je još jedna stavka u univerzumu saosećanja,
13:29
on its dark side,
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samo na onoj drugoj, tamnoj strani
13:31
that also deserves our serious attention and illumination.
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koja takođe zaslužuje našu punu pažnju i razmatranje.
13:36
Gandhi, too, was a real flawed human being.
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Gandi je takođe bio ljudsko biće sa puno mana.
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So was Martin Luther King, Jr. So was Dorothy Day.
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Kao i Martin Luter King mlađi. Kao i Doroti Dej.
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So was Mother Teresa.
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Kao i Majka Tereza.
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So are we all.
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Kao i svi mi.
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And I want to say
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I želim da kažem
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that it is a liberating thing
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da je oslobađajuće kada
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to realize that that is no obstacle to compassion --
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spoznamo da ne postoji prepreka saosećanju,
13:52
following on what Fred Luskin says --
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kao što je Fred Luskin rekao,
13:55
that these flaws just make us human.
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da nas ove mane upravo i čine ljudima.
13:58
Our culture is obsessed with perfection
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Naša kultura je opsednuta savršenstvom
14:01
and with hiding problems.
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i sakrivanjem problema.
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But what a liberating thing to realize
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Ali kako je oslobađajuće shvatiti
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that our problems, in fact,
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da naši problemi, u stvari,
14:07
are probably our richest sources
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predstavljaju naše najbogatije izvore
14:10
for rising to this ultimate virtue of compassion,
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za uzdizanje ka ovoj krajnjoj vrlini, saosećanju,
14:14
towards bringing compassion
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prema pokazivanju saosećanja
14:16
towards the suffering and joys of others.
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i onima koji pate i onima koji se raduju.
14:20
Rachel Naomi Remen is a better doctor
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Rejčel Naomi Remen je bolji doktor
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because of her life-long struggle with Crohn's disease.
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zbog svoje celoživotne borbe sa Kronovom bolešću.
14:25
Einstein became a humanitarian,
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Ajnštajn je bio humanitarac,
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not because of his exquisite knowledge
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ne zahvaljujući svom velikom znanju
14:29
of space and time and matter,
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o prostoru i vremenu i materiji,
14:31
but because he was a Jew as Germany grew fascist.
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nego zbog toga što je bio Jevrejin u fašističkoj Nemačkoj.
14:34
And Karen Armstrong, I think you would also say
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Mislim da bi se i Karen Armstrong složila sa tim
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that it was some of your very wounding experiences
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da su je neka njena ranija iskustva
14:40
in a religious life that,
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iz religijskog života
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with a zigzag,
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neka više, neka manje, vodila
14:44
have led to the Charter for Compassion.
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do Povelje o saosećanju.
14:48
Compassion can't be reduced to sainthood
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Saosećanje se ne može redukovati na svetački život,
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any more than it can be reduced to pity.
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kao što se ne može poistovećivati sa žaljenjem.
14:55
So I want to propose
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Zato želim da predložim
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a final definition of compassion --
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konačnu definiciju saosećanja -
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this is Einstein with Paul Robeson by the way --
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uzgred, ovo je Ajnštajn sa Polom Robensonom -
15:03
and that would be for us
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i po njoj
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to call compassion a spiritual technology.
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saosećanje je duhovna tehnologija.
15:09
Now our traditions contain
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Sada naše tradicije sadrže
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vast wisdom about this,
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neograničenu mudrost po ovom pitanju
15:13
and we need them to mine it for us now.
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i nama je potrebno da se to stavi u stranu.
15:16
But compassion is also equally at home
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Saosećanje je podjednako i kod kuće,
15:19
in the secular as in the religious.
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u svetovnom, kao i u religioznom smislu.
15:22
So I will paraphrase Einstein in closing
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Parafraziraću Ajnštajna
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and say that humanity,
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i reći da je ljudskom rodu,
15:27
the future of humanity,
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kao i njegovoj budućnosti,
15:29
needs this technology
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ova tehnologija potrebna
15:31
as much as it needs all the others
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koliko i sve ostale
15:33
that have now connected us
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koje nas povezuju
15:36
and set before us
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i omogućavaju nam,
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the terrifying and wondrous possibility
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iako zastrašujuće i čudesno,
15:40
of actually becoming one human race.
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da zapravo postanemo ljudska rasa.
15:43
Thank you.
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Hvala vam!
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(Applause)
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(Aplauz)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Krista Tippett - JournalistKrista Tippett hosts the national public radio program "On Being," which takes up the great, animating questions of human life: What does it mean to be human? And how do we want to live?
Why you should listen
Krista Tippett grew up in Oklahoma, the granddaughter of a Southern Baptist preacher. She studied history at Brown University and went to Bonn, West Germany in 1983 on a Fulbright Scholarship to study politics in Cold War Europe. In her 20s, she ended up in divided Berlin for most of the 1980s, first as the New York Times stringer and a freelance correspondent for Newsweek, the International Herald Tribune, the BBC and Die Zeit. She later became a special assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.
When Tippett graduated with a M.Div. from Yale, she saw a black hole where intelligent coverage of religion should be. As she conducted a far-flung oral history project for the Benedictines of St. John's Abbey, she began to imagine radio conversations about the spiritual and intellectual content of faith that could open minds and enrich public life. These imagined conversations became reality when she created "Speaking of Faith" (later "On Being"), which is broadcast on over 200 US public radio stations and globally by NPR. From ecology to autism to torture, Tippett and her guests reach beyond the headlines to explore meaning, faith and ethics amidst the political, economic, cultural and technological shifts that define 21st-century life. Tippett is the author of Speaking of Faith and Einstein's God.
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