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The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.

Parker J. Palmer

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
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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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My favorite topping is one that a lot of people don't like. I love anchovies.
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Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
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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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Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.
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When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'
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Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?
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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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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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