wrapping up loose ends from summer 2012 lectures.
such powerful words then, still so relevant today.



live to listenour filters create our reality ( Read more... )

"We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that's death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self-contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. It doesn't have any fresh air. There's no ( Read more... )

how do you know what's best? what's best for each child?
how can you find a balance in meeting every child's needs?

"Energy is spent on the thorny issues of whether we “have to” be friends with everyone or only look out for their rights. Indeed, what are their rights? Does everyone “have to” support the transformation of others, or can it be ( Read more... )

Language is a powerful thing, and it changes the way we view ourselves, and other people, in delightful and horrifying ways ( Read more... )

"Take the difference between reading and meditating. We may read a voluminous novel in a single night. We may meditate upon a verse of scripture for an entire hour. When we read a novel in a night, it is like a wind that passes over arid ground. There is a squandering of the physical powers. But the one who meditates assimilates in a manner that ( Read more... )

i've had this quotation for at least 2-3 years now. excerpts of it hang on my classroom door, a daily reminder.

Excerpts from Carlina Rinaldi’s book
In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia: Listening, Researching and Learning
Chapter: “Pedagogy of Listening”, p. 49 - 50

How can we define the term listening?

Listening as sensitivity to the patterns ( Read more... )

First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons--but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries. Often the beloved is only a stimulus for all the stored up love which has lain quiet ( Read more... )

"... although the truth is I am not in love with her, she said, 'I love you,' I told her how I felt, this is how I told her: I held her hands out to her sides, pointed her index fingers toward each other and slowly, very slowly, moved them in, the closer they got, the more slowly I moved them, and then, as they were about to touch, as they were ( Read more... )

"She is no longer as certain that the object is entirely recuperable, no longer as arrogant as to presume a subject position that is inviolable, no longer as naive as to think the transactions of knowledge are innocent."

-biman basu

( non-dits )