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Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?

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I understand that there are forms of entertainment that can make people weep or jazz them up so they feel like they have had an experience. But I also know that an hour later that's faded and you are back to the difficult realities of your own life. And we need to help people know how to go beyond those difficulties to a place where God dwells.
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We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other into meeting our own needs.
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The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.
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Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.
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The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.
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One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.
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Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our students to become people who think and live freely, yet at the same time we know that helping them become free requires us to restrict their freedom in certain situations.
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You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.
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Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.
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I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them.
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What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?
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Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.
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When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'
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Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks--we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.
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The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.
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Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need
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The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient and shy. When we go crashing through the woods shouting for it to come out so we can help it, the soul will stay in hiding. But if we are willing to sit quietly and wait for a while, the soul may show itself.
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Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.
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