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"Educators are healers who trust in the wholeness of life and of people" Dr Rachel Naomi Brown
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"Education is a mirror - it brings about a fundamental understanding of our own mind." Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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"How can we balance 'education as being led out of ignorance' with 'education as going forward into the unknown'?" Joan Halifax
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"Vocation - my deep gladness meets the world's deep need" Frederick Buechner
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"If I don't hold a spiritual space within myself then I can't invite students to share their gifts with me. " Parker Palmer
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"The teacher provides a space within themselves so they can take into themselves the uniqueness of others so they can mirror it back." bell hooks
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"We cannot have one model of learning and educating that we put on everyone. We need to ask ourselves how can I twirl around to find the one that best helps here. "
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"For the true teacher, pedagogy must be something living and new that the teacher forgets and remembers in the presence of a student" quoted from Rudolf Steiner
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"Each culture has a unique way to assist people on a spiritual path - to follow one's own tradition is better." The Dalai Lama
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"Following a tradition is like putting money into the bank - it's managed with little risk and you know it's there for a rainy day. If you manage money yourself you tend to take far greater risks ...." (After he said this there was a huge lightening bolt above the conference tent - the Rabbi took it all back saying "obviously He didn't like that!") Rabbi Zalman Schacter - Shalomi
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"Conflict is a necessary and creative force. Polarities are important to heighten differences inorder to create space in which to find a third view." Dianne Chapman-Walsh
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"We teachers need to stop needing to be liked by our students - to help them grow we need to make them uncomfortable ... and they won't like us for it!" Parker Palmer
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"There is great need in our culture to be reborn into something new and to find mystery" Joan Halifax
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"Don't be afraid of being too beautiful, too powerful or too full of light - be this and we give permission for others to be this also." Vincent Harding
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"If you want to see different aspects of yourself that you don't want to see then get yourself into a relationship or a community!" Joan Halifax
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"When we get design right we find it accounts for systems, there is no waste, the price includes all costs and it does the job with no ugliness." David Orr
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"What would cities look like of they were designed for people and communities and not cars?" Vincent Harding
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"Ascend from below with practice, descend from above with vision" Judith Simmer Brown
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Compassion - the right relationship of humanity to oneself." Dr Rachel Naomi Brown
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"Live the question until you live your way into the answer" Vincent Harding
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