By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is… — 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
There's a lot of fear connected with the inner journey because it penetrates our illusions. Taking the inner journey will lead you… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Everybody is on a lifelong journey toward trying to live more deeply. There is nobody who can say, "Well, I've got that… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“But before we come to that center, full of light, we must travel in the dark. Darkness is not the whole of… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken,… — 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
