What if we dedicated ourselves to valuing and supporting not only the student who is doing well, but also the resistant student; the student with an attitude; the student who talks back; the student who is healing; the student who is frustrated?
When we do recognize what the nature of the practice is, the only decision left is if we will dedicate ourselves to it fully, if we will heat the crucible and, over time, extract the precious shining brilliance from its source so that we might merge it with a greater brilliance.
Even if we dedicate our whole life to completely changing all the people around us, who said someone else wouldn't come and upset us?
They know in the depth of their souls that if we dedicate the human mind to overcome hatred, we can curb the evil impulse to use the new capacity of human technology to destroy.
In return, I vow that, if confirmed, we will dedicate ourselves to strengthening the American public's confidence and trust in the CIA and re-establishing the agency's "social contract" with the American people, to whom we are ultimately accountable.
If we all just dedicate a little of ourselves by sharing our worlds, we can help inspire and mentor these kids emotionally, academically and socially.
But what might we achieve if we decided to dedicate years, rather than months, to something?
But even if we have neurons dedicated to detecting snakes, that doesn't mean that we have to be terrified of them.
If each of us dedicates ourselves to avoiding cruelty to humans and non-humans alike.
And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves.
