Occupation: Author Birth: 1939
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….
The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world.….
Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve lost the idea tha….
As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together..
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" mind….
Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on th….
I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to speech." Behind their fearful si….
When you are with young people, it is almost inconceivable that things wouldn't arise that you'd have to respond to, such as someone wrestling on the….
Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for moving toward that vision an….
When there is a gap between what's on the outside and what's on the inside, that's when people retreat into their foxholes because it is an unsafe si….
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life..
Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift..
There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass me….
We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the ….
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy..
We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who….
The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds..
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being ….
Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as if God might answer. 'There are no….
The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we can speak to the teacher within our studen….
The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin..