April 2012
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A student blows up at a teacher, drops the F-bomb. The usual approach at Lincoln – and, safe to say, at most high schools in this country – is automatic suspension. Instead, Sporleder sits the kid down and says quietly: “Wow. Are you OK? This doesn’t sound like you. What’s going on?”
He gets even more specific: “You really looked stressed. On a scale of 1-10, where are you with your anger?” The kid was ready. Ready, man! For an anger blast to his face….”How could you do that?” “What’s wrong with you?”…and for the big boot out of school. But he was NOT ready for kindness.
The armor-plated defenses melt like ice under a blowtorch and the words pour out: “My dad’s an alcoholic. He’s promised me things my whole life and never keeps those promises.” The waterfall of words that go deep into his home life, which is no piece of breeze, end with this sentence: “I shouldn’t have blown up at the teacher.” Whoa.
” —Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline — suspensions drop 85% (via mchotdog)
what a radical idea yo
(via matthewdgold)
“You are confined only by the walls you build yourself”
—Andrew Murphy
“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you become new if you haven’t first become ashes?” —Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
how could you become new if you haven’t first become ashes?” —Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world, you see.”
—Terence McKenna
There is only one question to ask yourself: “What would you do if you were not afraid?”
“If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light.”
—Paramahansa Yogananda
“Worrying is praying for something you don’t want.”
—Bhagavan Das
“And finally the moment came when I pushed aside what I had done and started to begin again with the announcement that Jupiter himself had never existed; that man was alone in a world in which no voices were heard than his own, a world neither friendly nor unfriendly save he made it so..
How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.” —Julius Caesar, The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder
How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.” —Julius Caesar, The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder
“If your neighbor falls ill, and you feel the pain; if any of your known people are in trouble or misery and your heart aches—only then you have a human heart in the real sense.”
—Khurshid Alam
“Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.”
—Barbara Marciniak
“There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?”
—Sir Ken Robinson
“We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.”
—Thoch Nhat Hanh
“Walk as if you were kissing the Earth with your feet.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh
“Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.”
—Sir Ken Robinson
“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.”
—Noam Chomsky
