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

Parker J. Palmer

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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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Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.
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When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'
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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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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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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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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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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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What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?
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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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... 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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God ain't finished with any of us yet.
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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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