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One of the hardest things we must sometimes do 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.

— Parker Palmer Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999)

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In depression, the built-in bunk detector that we all possess is not only turned on but is set on high.

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999)

Reality—including one’s own—is divine, not to be defied but honored.

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999)

The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials, is a profoundly moral regimen.

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I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope.

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I am a teacher at heart, and there are moments in the classroom when I can hardly hold the joy.

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