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We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

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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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The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.
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Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.
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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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Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.
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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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Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.
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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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Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.
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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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There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the surface of the culture and finding those timeless, eternal truths that the whole Christian enterprise is rooted in. And one of those is that you don't come to God at 180 miles an hour.
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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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Everybody is on a lifelong journey toward trying to live more deeply. There is nobody who can say, Well, I've got that one checked off my to-do list. We have to be honest with ourselves about where we are on this journey and about the difficulty of living in our own identities and integrity.
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Here, I think, is another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations - projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves- and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.
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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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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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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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Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.
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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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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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