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 we are.
Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.
The past isn’t fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.
A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.
What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?
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 teach, and who can communicate with kids.
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.
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 enter into and how I conduct them.
Is the life I’m living the life that wants to live in me?
Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community.
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 am.
Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.
Why does a literary scholar study the world of “fiction”? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.
The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.
I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.
Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.
Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.
Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.
Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.