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sometimes wonder if every living thing doesn’t need kind words as much as sunshine and water.
“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement, [to] get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed. —Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–72)”
― Seasons of Wonder: Making the Ordinary Sacred Through Projects, Prayers, Reflections, and Rituals: A 52-week devotional
― Seasons of Wonder: Making the Ordinary Sacred Through Projects, Prayers, Reflections, and Rituals: A 52-week devotional
“The Montessori method is an integrated educational system with solid, proven principles that work. If those principles are compromised, the Montessori method will not work and the child will not thrive. Eventually the Montessori method will lose its uniqueness and dwindle away.”
― Effective Discipline the Montessori Way
― Effective Discipline the Montessori Way
“I have come to you so that together we shall build a durable peace based on justice to avoid the shedding of one single drop of blood by both sides. It is for this reason that I have proclaimed my readiness to go to the farthest corner of the earth.[156]”
― Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
― Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
“The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature. —Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)”
― Seasons of Wonder: Making the Ordinary Sacred Through Projects, Prayers, Reflections, and Rituals: A 52-week devotional
― Seasons of Wonder: Making the Ordinary Sacred Through Projects, Prayers, Reflections, and Rituals: A 52-week devotional
“At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline.[1] — Maria Montessori”
― Effective Discipline the Montessori Way
― Effective Discipline the Montessori Way
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