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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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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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It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.
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What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?
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Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.
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Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!
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When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'
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When you are with young people, it is almost inconceivable that things wouldn't arise that you'd have to respond to, such as someone wrestling on the bus. And how you handle that, how you respond to that, how you deal with that is a lesson to the people you are on the bus with.
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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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Students want to know, Are you painting by the numbers, or are you really present as a human being to what you are doing and is it coming from inside of you? So I would ask teachers this question: Do you have a wellgrounded personal experience and conviction concerning whatever it is you are trying to teach?
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Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?
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Although there are some enormously gifted lecturers and preachers who do create community with oratory, I like to do anything I can to engage my students with each other, with me, and with the subject. And the subject, I think, always has to take prominence.
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I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.
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Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
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Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our students to become people who think and live freely, yet at the same time we know that helping them become free requires us to restrict their freedom in certain situations.
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God ain't finished with any of us yet.
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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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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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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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Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.
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