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Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?
Parker J. Palmer
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Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.
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Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?
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I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.
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Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.
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It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.
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Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for moving toward that vision and a capacity to rally and join with others in achieving it. If the anger that drives rebellion is not transformed into the hope that inspires movement communities, it will do more harm than good.
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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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Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
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Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.
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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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We can teach a good, formal lesson on forgiveness as a Christian virtue and all the doctrines that are attached to it. But to be in a real-life situation, a work camp or a trip or some other activity with young people where real forgiveness needs to happen, that's a different situation altogether. And that is where the deepest learning will occur.
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Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.
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Technology is incredibly creative and has great potentials but it is also very seductive in the way it isolates people, in the way it jazzes people up, in the way it makes junkies out of us - junkies who need a constant stimulation, more information, more bells and whistles, more electronic wonders in order not to be bored.
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Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other. In the process, we become separated from our own souls. We end up living divided lives, so far removed from the truth we hold within that we cannot know the 'integrity that comes from being what you are.
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We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.
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A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.
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Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!
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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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... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility
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I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.
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