Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects… — 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
Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild… — 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
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
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 power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and… — 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
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Students want to know, "Are you painting by the numbers, or are you really present as a human being to what you… — 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
