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
Although there are some enormously gifted lecturers and preachers who do create community with oratory, I like to do anything I can… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our… — 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
I believe that movements start when individuals who feel very isolated and very alone in the midst of an alien culture, come… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one's self. It is not about… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
