Occupation: Author Birth: 1939
The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its lo….
My high school, like most high schools, had a pretty rigid stratification system. Kids were clustered into groups - the studious ones, the athletes, ….
The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them..
A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more….
Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart f….
In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to ….
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'm 67 years old now. I've had a lot of good teachers over the years; and they have been very, very different from one another. They all had passion ….
Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!.
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….
Integrity requires that I discern what is integral to my selfhood, what fits and what does not-and that I choose life-giving ways of relating to the….
Even though kids may have planned for months for the trip to Disneyland, some may be feeling very homesick, very forlorn, or very marginalized by the….
In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power to resist falsehood and l….
A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it..
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 ….
Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our student….
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 a….
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am..
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….
Here, I think, is another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations - projec….
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….