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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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When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'
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Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
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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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Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for moving toward that vision and a capacity to rally and join with others in achieving it. If the anger that drives rebellion is not transformed into the hope that inspires movement communities, it will do 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.
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Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.
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Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.
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We can teach a good, formal lesson on forgiveness as a Christian virtue and all the doctrines that are attached to it. But to be in a real-life situation, a work camp or a trip or some other activity with young people where real forgiveness needs to happen, that's a different situation altogether. And that is where the deepest learning will occur.
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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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Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need
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Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!
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Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
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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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