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Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

Parker J. Palmer

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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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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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When you are with young people, it is almost inconceivable that things wouldn't arise that you'd have to respond to, such as someone wrestling on the bus. And how you handle that, how you respond to that, how you deal with that is a lesson to the people you are on the bus with.
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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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Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
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Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?
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Students want to know, Are you painting by the numbers, or are you really present as a human being to what you are doing and is it coming from inside of you? So I would ask teachers this question: Do you have a wellgrounded personal experience and conviction concerning whatever it is you are trying to teach?
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Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.
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My favorite topping is one that a lot of people don't like. I love anchovies.
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Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in every moment of the journey, everywhere in the world around us, and deep within our own hearts.
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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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My high school, like most high schools, had a pretty rigid stratification system. Kids were clustered into groups - the studious ones, the athletes, the popular ones - and we never crossed paths with each other. You stayed in your air-tight group, and you were suspicious of people in other groups.
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It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.
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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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Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.
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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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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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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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