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
We continually make decisions in private which affect the commonweal, as the ecologists (to take but one example) have shown us. When… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Technology is incredibly creative and has great potentials; but it is also very seductive in the way it isolates people, in the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I will always have fears, but I need not be my fears, for I have other places within myself from which to… — 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
We can teach a good, formal lesson on forgiveness as a Christian virtue and all the doctrines that are attached to it.… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them! — 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
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
We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids,… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I understand that there are forms of entertainment that can make people weep or jazz them up so they feel like they… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we… — 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
