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Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!

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Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other. In the process, we become separated from our own souls. We end up living divided lives, so far removed from the truth we hold within that we cannot know the 'integrity that comes from being what you are.
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Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.
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Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community.
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Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.
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Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks--we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.
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When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'
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One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.
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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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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 think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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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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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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Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.
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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 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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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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It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.
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