“Instead of telling our valuable stories, we seek safety in abstractions, speaking to each other about our opinions, ideas, and beliefs rather than about our lives. Academic culture blesses this practice by insisting that the more abstract our speech, the… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
“Instead of telling our valuable stories, we seek safety in abstractions, speaking to each other about our opinions, ideas, and beliefs rather than about… — Parker Palmer Copy Share
Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established… — Parker Palmer Copy Share
When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks.… — Parker Palmer Copy Share
There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways… — Parker Palmer Copy Share
“By standing respectfully and faithfully at the borders of another’s solitude, we may mediate the love of God to a person who needs something… — Parker Palmer Copy Share
“We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.” — Parker Palmer Copy Share
“Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't… — Parker Palmer Copy Share
“There is as much guidance in what does not and cannot happen in my life as there is in what can and does --… — Parker Palmer Copy Share
Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism. — Parker Palmer Copy Share
We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so… — Parker Palmer Copy Share
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a… — Parker Palmer Copy Share
“Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits… — Parker Palmer Copy Share
“You seem to look upon depression as the hand of an enemy trying to crush you…Do you think you could see it instead as… — Parker Palmer Copy Share
“When we so fear the dark that we demand light around the clock, there can be only one result: artificial light that is glaring… — Parker Palmer Copy Share
