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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.
Parker J. Palmer
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God ain't finished with any of us yet.
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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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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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When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'
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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 spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.
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We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.
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Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
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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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We can teach a good, formal lesson on forgiveness as a Christian virtue and all the doctrines that are attached to it. But to be in a real-life situation, a work camp or a trip or some other activity with young people where real forgiveness needs to happen, that's a different situation altogether. And that is where the deepest learning will occur.
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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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Technology is incredibly creative and has great potentials but it is also very seductive in the way it isolates people, in the way it jazzes people up, in the way it makes junkies out of us - junkies who need a constant stimulation, more information, more bells and whistles, more electronic wonders in order not to be bored.
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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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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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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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