I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
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 Image
Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“One of the most painful discoveries I made in the midst of the dark woods of depression was that a part of… — 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
In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other. In… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“embracing one's wholeness makes life more demanding--because once you do that, you must live your whole life. One of the most painful… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“First, the subjects we teach are as large and complex as life so our knowledge of them is always flawed and partial.… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before… — 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
