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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.

Parker J. Palmer

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Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
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It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.
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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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Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.
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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. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.
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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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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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Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.
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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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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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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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It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So we place them on top of our hearts. And there they stay until, one day, the heart breaks and the words fall in.
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We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.
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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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Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?
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