“The notion that ‘real freedom’ is about not being interdependent, when the genuine staff of life is our interdependency, is our capacity to feel both with and for ourselves and other people.” - bell hooks

“The truth is that we cannot love a God who isn’t present precisely when we are sad, scared, worried, anxious, and angry. I want nothing to do with a God who isn’t weeping, too.- Sarah Bessey

“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”-M. Wheatley, Who Do We Choose To Be, p. 167

A learning-centered approach can be transformative because it is relational. As M. Wheatley explains, “A recipe for creating mind change has 3 basic ingredients: a relationship of mutual respect; genuine curiosity about one another; & a process that requires good listening.”-Who do we choose to be

“Well, I won't back down
No I won't back down
You could stand me up at the gates of Hell
But I won't back down”- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

“We don’t live and move and have our being within a Love that denies our full humanity.”- Sarah Bessey

“Who do we choose to become when we are isolated, lonely, and angry people?… “A culture focused on individual freedom can only result in narcissism, polarization, conflict, estrangement, & loneliness. What is the meaning of life when it’s all about me?” -Margaret Wheatley

Successfully defended my PhD thesis yesterday from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Done and done. Next…

Sophia, Bulgaria

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I’m more and more convinced that relational encounter leads to knowledge development. Or, put another way, ontological encounter leads to epistemological development, and this is a never ending process. We never “arrive”.

I love how Esther Meek critiques dichotomous thinking in knowing, particularly in the way modern epistemology separates various elements of the knowing process.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”—Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“Teachers must educate students into freedom. They must therefore devise programmes which do not programme, carefully calculating curricula which will leave room for the incalculable. They must assume we are all teachers and students alike—in the untruth, and that the truth is still to come, … 1/3

Sometimes on my way home I have to stop and take another photo. @SantCugatdelVallès

“Having access to the available knowledge of our time is not sufficient. What is important is being able to relate to it in such a way that it contributes to our changing ourselves and our world for the better. … 1/2

“Podrán cortar todas las flores, pero no podrán detener la primavera.”—Pablo Neruda

I love the writings of Michael Polanyi: "All knowing is personal knowing, in which the knower, by indwelling, participates in that which he knows."
– Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (1958)