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“As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.”

Book:A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

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A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

This book delves into the idea of wholeness, examining how individuals can strive for a harmonious life that integrates various aspects of their being. more

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Parker J. Palmer

Parker J. Palmer is an American author and educator renowned for his works in the fields of personal and community wisdom, emphasizing how education can promote the wholeness of individuals and societies. more

“To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out.”

Important Fall Energy Teach Greater Teacher Feet Special Cry Danger Students Tasks Silent Ignorant Helpful

Book:The Cornish Trilogy

Source: The Cornish Trilogy

“In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.”

Children Art Wanted Understood Tattoo Violet Crushed Attorney Toddler Indelible Previous Life

Book:My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

“Do you have someone watching her house?” (Stephanie) “That kind of surveillance only happens in the movies. We’re so underbudgeted we’re one step away from holding bake sales to pay for toilet paper. (Morelli)”

Kind Happens House Pay Steps Paper Toilets Surveillance Toilet Paper Bake Sale

Author:Janet Evanovich

“The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.”