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It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.

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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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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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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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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I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.
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The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.
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Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!
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Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.
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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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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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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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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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The teachers who have had the most impact on me and on most learners I know are teachers whose selfhoods have been deeply invested in what they are doing.
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Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?
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I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them.
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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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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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God ain't finished with any of us yet.
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Technology is incredibly creative and has great potentials but it is also very seductive in the way it isolates people, in the way it jazzes people up, in the way it makes junkies out of us - junkies who need a constant stimulation, more information, more bells and whistles, more electronic wonders in order not to be bored.
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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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