America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others. — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.” — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism. — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
