I believe that movements start when individuals who feel very isolated and very alone in the midst of an alien culture, come in touch with something ….

The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient and shy. When we go ….

Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up..

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life..

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you..

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 ….

There's a lot of fear connected with the inner journey because it penetrates our illusions. Taking the inner journey will lead you into some very sha….

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….

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed..

I am very, very uneasy with churches that have basically said, "Well, since that's what people want and that's what sells, then were going to do our ….

Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my st….

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..

Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive..

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be ….

We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they….

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work..

... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility.

If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the church or seen as less ….

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 ….

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us….

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 ….