We continually make decisions in private which affect the commonweal, as the ecologists (to take but one example) have shown us. When I keep my house….

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 ….

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 ….

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

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….

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 ….

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

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 ….

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….

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….

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….

Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion..

Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is true that we are p….

In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our companions will be ….

Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one's self. It is not about the absence of othe….

For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world..

Hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest. The concept of hospitality arose in ancient times when the reciprocity….

The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change but accept….

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher..