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I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.

Parker J. Palmer

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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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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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We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other into meeting our own needs.
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Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
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Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!
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