Parker J. Palmer

God ain't finished with any of us yet.

— Parker J. Palmer

It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.

— Parker J. Palmer

The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.

— Parker J. Palmer

Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.

— Parker J. Palmer

Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.

— Parker J. Palmer

Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?

— Parker J. Palmer

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

— Parker J. Palmer

Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!

— Parker J. Palmer

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

— Parker J. Palmer

My favorite topping is one that a lot of people don't like. I love anchovies.

— Parker J. Palmer

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already…

— Parker J. Palmer

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

I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.

— Parker J. Palmer

When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'

— Parker J. Palmer

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

The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

— Parker J. Palmer

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing…

— Parker J. Palmer

Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and…

— Parker J. Palmer

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no…

— Parker J. Palmer

“Citizenship is a way of being in the world rooted in the knowledge that I am a member of a vast community…

— Parker J. Palmer

A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the…

— Parker J. Palmer

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

“This book is for teachers who have good days and bad and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from…

— Parker J. Palmer

I'm 67 years old now. I've had a lot of good teachers over the years; and they have been very, very different…

— Parker J. Palmer

I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear…

— Parker J. Palmer

The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and…

— Parker J. Palmer

My high school, like most high schools, had a pretty rigid stratification system. Kids were clustered into groups - the studious ones,…

— Parker J. Palmer

Technology is incredibly creative and has great potentials; but it is also very seductive in the way it isolates people, in the…

— Parker J. Palmer

I am very, very uneasy with churches that have basically said, "Well, since that's what people want and that's what sells, then…

— Parker J. Palmer

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

Hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest. The concept of hospitality arose in ancient times…

— Parker J. Palmer

Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as…

— Parker J. Palmer

“Formation may be the best name for what happens in a circle of trust, because the word refers, historically, to soul work…

— Parker J. Palmer

“Eventually, I developed my own image of teh "befriending" impulse behind my depression. Imagine that from early in my life, a friendly…

— Parker J. Palmer

“Zen Judaism: For You, a Little Enlightenment,”

— Parker J. Palmer

Good teaching comes from good people.

— Parker J. Palmer

Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.

— Parker J. Palmer

What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?

— Parker J. Palmer

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

— Parker J. Palmer

Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.

— Parker J. Palmer