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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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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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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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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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The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient and shy. When we go crashing through the woods shouting for it to come out so we can help it, the soul will stay in hiding. But if we are willing to sit quietly and wait for a while, the soul may show itself.
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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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The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.
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Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!
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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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Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.
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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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My favorite topping is one that a lot of people don't like. I love anchovies.
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It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.
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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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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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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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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 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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Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
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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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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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