--- title: "14 Ifs Quotes By Parker J. Palmer" description: "14 Ifs quotes by Parker J. Palmer. Plus more from Parker J. Palmer and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/parker-j-palmer-2983_art-of-life_wholeness-does-not-mean-perfection-it-me_2644299.png" --- > [Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/wholeness-does-not-mean-perfection-it-means-embracing-brokenness-as-2/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/parker-j-palmer-2983_art-of-life_wholeness-does-not-mean-perfection-it-me_2644299.png) > [We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/we-are-participants-in-a-vast-communion-of-being-and-if-we-open/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/parker-j-palmer-2983_communion_we-are-participants-in-a-vast-communion_1298004.png) > [Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/community-doesn-t-just-create-abundance-community-is-abundance-if-we/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41d/parker-j-palmer-2983_abundance_community-doesn-t-just-create-abundance_1476481.png) > [The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we can speak to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/the-kind-of-teaching-that-transforms-people-does-not-happen-if-the/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d65/parker-j-palmer-2983_doe_the-kind-of-teaching-that-transforms-peo_1903632.png) > [Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/death-in-various-forms-is-sometimes-comforting-while-resurrection-and/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26e/parker-j-palmer-2983_comforting_death-in-various-forms-is-sometimes-comf_312948.png) > [Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/perhaps-the-answer-is-that-my-ravaged-mind-rails-against-the-idea-of/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7d/parker-j-palmer-2983_answers_perhaps-the-answer-is-that-my-ravaged-mi_3069232.jpg) > [Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/vocation-does-not-come-from-willfulness-it-comes-from-listening-i/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8f/parker-j-palmer-2983_doe_vocation-does-not-come-from-willfulness_1728829.jpg) > [Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/leadership-is-a-concept-we-often-resist-it-seems-immodest-even-self/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c6/parker-j-palmer-2983_community_leadership-is-a-concept-we-often-resist_3007799.jpg) > [Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/teaching-like-any-truly-human-activity-emerges-from-one-s-inwardness/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c59/parker-j-palmer-2983_activity_teaching-like-any-truly-human-activity-e_72398.png) > [If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/if-my-life-is-any-example-the-work-that-youth-workers-are-doing-is/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/620/parker-j-palmer-2983_believe_if-my-life-is-any-example-the-work-that_123083.jpg) > [The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/the-human-soul-doesn-t-want-to-be-fixed-it-simply-wants-to-be-seen/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4f/parker-j-palmer-2983_animal_the-human-soul-doesn-t-want-to-be-fixed_1640779.png) > [Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/opposing-what-s-wrong-is-a-halfway-measure-at-best-a-rebel-must-also/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ea/parker-j-palmer-2983_achieve_opposing-what-s-wrong-is-a-halfway-measu_52883.png) > [Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/let-s-not-forget-that-american-democracy-started-with-we-the-people/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f4/parker-j-palmer-2983_american-democracy_let-s-not-forget-that-american-democracy_1921505.jpg) > [No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/no-scientist-knows-the-world-merely-by-holding-it-at-arm-s-length-if/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42b/parker-j-palmer-2983_animated_no-scientist-knows-the-world-merely-by-h_2063972.png) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Parker J. Palmer > [“The God I know is the source of reality, rather than morality; the source of 'what is' rather than the source of 'what ought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/the-god-i-know-is-the-source-of-reality-rather-than-morality-the/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/one-of-the-hardest-things-we-must-do-sometimes-is-to-be-present-to/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/opposing-what-s-wrong-is-a-halfway-measure-at-best-a-rebel-must-also/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/teaching-like-any-truly-human-activity-emerges-from-one-s-inwardness/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) > [If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/if-my-life-is-any-example-the-work-that-youth-workers-are-doing-is/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) > [Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/self-care-is-never-a-selfish-act-it-is-only-good-stewardship-of-the/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) > [The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/the-spiritual-life-is-about-becoming-more-at-home-in-your-own-skin/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) > [“Formation may be the best name for what happens in a circle of trust, because the word refers, historically, to soul work done in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/formation-may-be-the-best-name-for-what-happens-in-a-circle-of-trust/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) > [Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/don-t-let-anyone-or-anything-rob-you-of-the-beauty-and-meaning-at-the/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) > [“Citizenship is a way of being in the world rooted in the knowledge that I am a member of a vast community of human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/citizenship-is-a-way-of-being-in-the-world-rooted-in-the-knowledge/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/i-think-the-church-needs-to-be-much-more-countercultural-than-that/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) > [My high school, like most high schools, had a pretty rigid stratification system. Kids were clustered into groups - the studious ones, the athletes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/my-high-school-like-most-high-schools-had-a-pretty-rigid/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) > [Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/death-in-various-forms-is-sometimes-comforting-while-resurrection-and/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) > [Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/discovering-vocation-does-not-mean-scrambling-toward-some-prize-just-2/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) > [It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So we place them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/it-is-because-as-we-are-our-hearts-are-closed-and-we-cannot-place-the/) [Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/parker-j-palmer/#itemlist", "name": "14 Ifs Quotes By Parker J. Palmer", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness - mine, yours, ours - need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Parker J. Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/wholeness-does-not-mean-perfection-it-means-embracing-brokenness-as-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/parker-j-palmer-2983_art-of-life_wholeness-does-not-mean-perfection-it-me_2644299.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/parker-j-palmer-2983_art-of-life_wholeness-does-not-mean-perfection-it-me_2644299.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/parker-j-palmer-2983_art-of-life_wholeness-does-not-mean-perfection-it-me_2644299.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this…” — Parker J. Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Parker J. Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/we-are-participants-in-a-vast-communion-of-being-and-if-we-open/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/parker-j-palmer-2983_communion_we-are-participants-in-a-vast-communion_1298004.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/parker-j-palmer-2983_communion_we-are-participants-in-a-vast-communion_1298004.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/parker-j-palmer-2983_communion_we-are-participants-in-a-vast-communion_1298004.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn…” — Parker J. Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Parker J. Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/community-doesn-t-just-create-abundance-community-is-abundance-if-we/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41d/parker-j-palmer-2983_abundance_community-doesn-t-just-create-abundance_1476481.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41d/parker-j-palmer-2983_abundance_community-doesn-t-just-create-abundance_1476481.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41d/parker-j-palmer-2983_abundance_community-doesn-t-just-create-abundance_1476481.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the…” — Parker J. Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we can speak to the teacher within our students only when we are on speaking terms with the teacher within ourselves.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Parker J. Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/the-kind-of-teaching-that-transforms-people-does-not-happen-if-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d65/parker-j-palmer-2983_doe_the-kind-of-teaching-that-transforms-peo_1903632.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d65/parker-j-palmer-2983_doe_the-kind-of-teaching-that-transforms-peo_1903632.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d65/parker-j-palmer-2983_doe_the-kind-of-teaching-that-transforms-peo_1903632.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we…” — Parker J. Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Parker J. Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/death-in-various-forms-is-sometimes-comforting-while-resurrection-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26e/parker-j-palmer-2983_comforting_death-in-various-forms-is-sometimes-comf_312948.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26e/parker-j-palmer-2983_comforting_death-in-various-forms-is-sometimes-comf_312948.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26e/parker-j-palmer-2983_comforting_death-in-various-forms-is-sometimes-comf_312948.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and…” — Parker J. Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as if God might answer. 'There are not foxholes,' I guess, and depression is the deepest and deadliest foxhole I've been in. It may be the 'dark night of the soul' that the mystics talk about but in depression it is not so much that one becomes lost in the dark as one becomes the dark.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Parker J. Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/perhaps-the-answer-is-that-my-ravaged-mind-rails-against-the-idea-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7d/parker-j-palmer-2983_answers_perhaps-the-answer-is-that-my-ravaged-mi_3069232.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7d/parker-j-palmer-2983_answers_perhaps-the-answer-is-that-my-ravaged-mi_3069232.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7d/parker-j-palmer-2983_answers_perhaps-the-answer-is-that-my-ravaged-mi_3069232.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls…” — Parker J. Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions…..Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live-but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Parker J. Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/vocation-does-not-come-from-willfulness-it-comes-from-listening-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8f/parker-j-palmer-2983_doe_vocation-does-not-come-from-willfulness_1728829.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8f/parker-j-palmer-2983_doe_vocation-does-not-come-from-willfulness_1728829.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8f/parker-j-palmer-2983_doe_vocation-does-not-come-from-willfulness_1728829.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to…” — Parker J. Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is true that we are part of a community, then leadership is everyone's vocation, and it can be an evasion to insist that it is not. When we live in the close-knit ecosystem called community, everyone follows and everyone leads.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Parker J. Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/leadership-is-a-concept-we-often-resist-it-seems-immodest-even-self/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c6/parker-j-palmer-2983_community_leadership-is-a-concept-we-often-resist_3007799.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c6/parker-j-palmer-2983_community_leadership-is-a-concept-we-often-resist_3007799.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c6/parker-j-palmer-2983_community_leadership-is-a-concept-we-often-resist_3007799.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as…” — Parker J. Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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 onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. The entanglements I experience in the classroom are often no more or less than the convolutions of my inner life. Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge-and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Parker J. Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/teaching-like-any-truly-human-activity-emerges-from-one-s-inwardness/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c59/parker-j-palmer-2983_activity_teaching-like-any-truly-human-activity-e_72398.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c59/parker-j-palmer-2983_activity_teaching-like-any-truly-human-activity-e_72398.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c59/parker-j-palmer-2983_activity_teaching-like-any-truly-human-activity-e_72398.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I…” — Parker J. Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the church or seen as less important than being a senior minister in a large, prosperous congregation; but I don't believe that for a minute. I think this is absolutely critical work in the life of the church; and I think my path in life would have been much different if it hadn't been for my youth minister, Burt Randle, and a series of campus ministers in both college and graduate school.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Parker J. Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/if-my-life-is-any-example-the-work-that-youth-workers-are-doing-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/620/parker-j-palmer-2983_believe_if-my-life-is-any-example-the-work-that_123083.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/620/parker-j-palmer-2983_believe_if-my-life-is-any-example-the-work-that_123083.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/620/parker-j-palmer-2983_believe_if-my-life-is-any-example-the-work-that_123083.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get…” — Parker J. Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient and shy. When we go crashing through the woods shouting for it to come out so we can help it, the soul will stay in hiding. But if we are willing to sit quietly and wait for a while, the soul may show itself.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Parker J. Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/the-human-soul-doesn-t-want-to-be-fixed-it-simply-wants-to-be-seen/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4f/parker-j-palmer-2983_animal_the-human-soul-doesn-t-want-to-be-fixed_1640779.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4f/parker-j-palmer-2983_animal_the-human-soul-doesn-t-want-to-be-fixed_1640779.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4f/parker-j-palmer-2983_animal_the-human-soul-doesn-t-want-to-be-fixed_1640779.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“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", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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 that vision and a capacity to rally and join with others in achieving it. If the anger that drives rebellion is not transformed into the hope that inspires movement communities, it will do more harm than good.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Parker J. Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/opposing-what-s-wrong-is-a-halfway-measure-at-best-a-rebel-must-also/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ea/parker-j-palmer-2983_achieve_opposing-what-s-wrong-is-a-halfway-measu_52883.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ea/parker-j-palmer-2983_achieve_opposing-what-s-wrong-is-a-halfway-measu_52883.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ea/parker-j-palmer-2983_achieve_opposing-what-s-wrong-is-a-halfway-measu_52883.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a…” — Parker J. Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve lost the idea that politics begins at home with what happens in families, in neighborhoods, in classrooms, in congregations. We called this democracy into being – and if we want to call this democracy back to its highest values, it’s got to be the us doing that calling. That’s not going to happen if ‘We the People’ don’t know how to talk to one another with civility and hold our differences in a creative, life-giving way.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Parker J. Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/let-s-not-forget-that-american-democracy-started-with-we-the-people/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f4/parker-j-palmer-2983_american-democracy_let-s-not-forget-that-american-democracy_1921505.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f4/parker-j-palmer-2983_american-democracy_let-s-not-forget-that-american-democracy_1921505.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f4/parker-j-palmer-2983_american-democracy_let-s-not-forget-that-american-democracy_1921505.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a…” — Parker J. Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and the known, we could know nothing except the wall itself. Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known. That encounter has moments of distance, but it would not be an encounter without moments of intimacy as well. Knowing of any sort is relational, animated by a desire to come into deeper community with what we know.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Parker J. Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/no-scientist-knows-the-world-merely-by-holding-it-at-arm-s-length-if/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42b/parker-j-palmer-2983_animated_no-scientist-knows-the-world-merely-by-h_2063972.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42b/parker-j-palmer-2983_animated_no-scientist-knows-the-world-merely-by-h_2063972.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42b/parker-j-palmer-2983_animated_no-scientist-knows-the-world-merely-by-h_2063972.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the…” — Parker J. Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/parker-j-palmer/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/parker-j-palmer/", "name": "Ifs Quotes by Parker J. Palmer", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/parker-j-palmer/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/parker-j-palmer-2983_art-of-life_wholeness-does-not-mean-perfection-it-me_2644299.png" }, "description": "14 Ifs quotes by Parker J. Palmer. Plus more from Parker J. Palmer and more Ifs sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/parker-j-palmer/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/parker-j-palmer/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Ifs", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Parker J. Palmer", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/parker-j-palmer/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```