At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“The God I know is the source of reality, rather than morality; the source of 'what is' rather than the source of 'what ought… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for moving toward… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
“Formation may be the best name for what happens in a circle of trust, because the word refers, historically, to soul work done in… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
“Citizenship is a way of being in the world rooted in the knowledge that I am a member of a vast community of human… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
My high school, like most high schools, had a pretty rigid stratification system. Kids were clustered into groups - the studious ones, the athletes,… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So we place them… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
