"Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn."

-- Parker J. Palmer

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“I try not to articulate ideas in the film once I've arrived on the plot and the characters. I believe that if I focus my attention with enough compassion and heart on those things, then other things will be revealed, and that's from the education that I've had from the novel.”
“I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.”
“In other words, more violent tornadoes would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling', not 'global warming'.”
“Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.”
“Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you dont have mixed use, you dont have cities.”

Source : "Do we want to be citizens or customers?". Interview with Matthew Knight, edition.cnn.com. June 12, 2008.
“Our wounds are our sources of growth.”
“Whenever I am with energetic young people, I feel like a recharged battery.”
“Soul mates are brought together for a reason. All their lives they have been preparing for each other. When they look back at their lives they will see a new purpose to actions they have taken. Their lives take on a sense of oneness equalled by no other. Oneness of purpose, ambition, and love which can be a beacon to others along their spiritual paths.”

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