It’s more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.
We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.
Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen – and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.
The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.
One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person’s pain without trying to “fix” it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.
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.