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Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.

Parker J. Palmer

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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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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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... 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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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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Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.
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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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Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.
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We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.
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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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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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My favorite topping is one that a lot of people don't like. I love anchovies.
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Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?
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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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The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.
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Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
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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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Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
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Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.
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Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need
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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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