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Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.

Parker J. Palmer

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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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Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.
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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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Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?
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God ain't finished with any of us yet.
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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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The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.
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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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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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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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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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I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.
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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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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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I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.
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