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We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save…

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Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of…
How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth…
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.
I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear…
Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.
Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power…
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving…
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already…
We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands…
Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

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I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying to lose weight… — Kelly Clarkson
The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish.… — Neal A. Maxwell
Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you… — Robert Greene
Some folks never try to grow beyond lives that have not realized that potential. And as long as they don't regret that,… — Ken Evoy
I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life. — Drew Barrymore
What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared. — Angelina Jolie
My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people… — Victoria Wood
I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and… — John Denver
I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being… — Darius Rucker
I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself. — Hunter S. Thompson
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship. — William Glasser
I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was… — Sarah Dessen

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