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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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There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the surface of the culture and finding those timeless, eternal truths that the whole Christian enterprise is rooted in. And one of those is that you don't come to God at 180 miles an hour.
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Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
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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 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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The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.
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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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Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!
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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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Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.
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Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.
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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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It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.
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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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We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.
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My favorite topping is one that a lot of people don't like. I love anchovies.
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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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... 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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When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'
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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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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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