The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“Every profession that attracts people for reasons of the heart is a profession in which people, and the work they do, suffer… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
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 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
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
Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms… — 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
It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So we… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
