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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

Parker J. Palmer

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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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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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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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Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
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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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Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.
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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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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 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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What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?
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My favorite topping is one that a lot of people don't like. I love anchovies.
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Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.
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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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When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'
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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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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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Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.
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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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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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