What do you do for ecstasy?

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?

Finding voice is a socially responsible political act. We don't just do it for ourselves. And helping someone to find voice demands a spiritual partnership with that seeker. It's an exercise of compassion.

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

There must be a mirror to show the soul to itself before the soul can begin to gather its courage.

What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?

Whatever your eye falls on. For it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.