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Good teaching comes from good people.
I don't do a lot of top-down teaching.
God ain't finished with any of us yet.
We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.
Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.
Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?
What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?
The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.
Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.
The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them.
Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.
It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.
Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.
We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.
Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!
Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.
My favorite topping is one that a lot of people don't like. I love anchovies.
Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.
The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.
Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.
When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'
Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart.
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.
The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.
As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.
I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift.
Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.
In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.
The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.
A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.
I will always have fears, but I need not be my fears, for I have other places within myself from which to speak and act.
... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility
Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.
Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.
For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world.
Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.
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.
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.
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.
Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.
The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.
By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.
I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset.