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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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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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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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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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Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.
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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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When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'
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Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.
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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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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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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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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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What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?
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Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth.
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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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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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