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

Parker J. Palmer

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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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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 understand that there are forms of entertainment that can make people weep or jazz them up so they feel like they have had an experience. But I also know that an hour later that's faded and you are back to the difficult realities of your own life. And we need to help people know how to go beyond those difficulties to a place where God dwells.
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When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'
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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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Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?
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It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.
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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 are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.
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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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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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Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
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Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community.
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God ain't finished with any of us yet.
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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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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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