Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

I believe that movements start when individuals who feel very isolated and very alone in the midst of an alien culture, come in touch with something life-giving in the midst of a death-dealing situation. They make one of the most basic decisions a human being can make, which I have come to call the decision to live "divided no more," the decision to no longer act differently on the outside than one knows one's truth to be on the inside

Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?

My high school, like most high schools, had a pretty rigid stratification system. Kids were clustered into groups - the studious ones, the athletes, the popular ones - and we never crossed paths with each other. You stayed in your air-tight group, and you were suspicious of people in other groups.

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.

... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility