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Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

Parker J. Palmer

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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 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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It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.
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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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Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in every moment of the journey, everywhere in the world around us, and deep within our own hearts.
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.
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God ain't finished with any of us yet.
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