My Life isn't Perfect, but It's still Beautiful!

…We who lived in concentration camps remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances… (Victor Frankl)

* We separate head from heart. Result: minds that do not know how to feel and hears that do not know how to think.

* We separate facts from feelings. Result: bloodless facts that make the world distant and remote and ignorant emotions that reduce truth to how one feels today.

* We separate theory from practice. Result: theories that have little to do with life and practice that is uninformed by understanding.

* We separate teaching from learning. Result: teachers who talk but do not listen and students who listen but do not talk.


Paradoxical thinking requires that we embrace a view of the world in which opposites are joined, so that we can see the world clearly and see it whole.

(Parker J.Palmer "The Courage to Teach")