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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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Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!
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I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.
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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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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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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community.
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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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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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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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Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
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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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Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
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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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Although there are some enormously gifted lecturers and preachers who do create community with oratory, I like to do anything I can to engage my students with each other, with me, and with the subject. And the subject, I think, always has to take prominence.
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The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.
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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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Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.
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We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.
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Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.
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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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