“Hospitality is a bridge to all the great
virtues, but it is immediately accessible.
You don’t have to love or forgive or feel
compassion to extend hospitality. But
it’s more than an invitation. It is the
creation of a safe, inviting, trustworthy
space — an atmosphere as much as
a place. It shapes the experience to
follow. It creates the intention, the
spirit, and the boundaries for what
is possible. As creatures, it seems,
we imagine a homogeneity in other
groups that we know not to be there
in our own. But new social realities
are brought into being over time by a
quality of relationship between unlikely
combinations of people. When in doubt,
practice hospitality”
From Krista Tippett
