Students want to know, "Are you painting by the numbers, or are you really present as a human being to what you are doing; and is it coming from insi….

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..

The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them..

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….

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

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life..

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness - mine….

The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin..

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….

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own..

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am..

I don't do a lot of top-down teaching..

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….

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….

You don't become a good teacher by applying techniques; you don't become a good teacher by using the latest hot methodologies that are being promoted….

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 ….

Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided self….

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 ….

... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity - that is rooted i….

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

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together..