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,… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and… — 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
My favorite topping is one that a lot of people don't like. I love anchovies. — 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
The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and… — 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
People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Here, I think, is another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we can speak to the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one's self. It is not about… — 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
I am very, very uneasy with churches that have basically said, "Well, since that's what people want and that's what sells, then… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an… — 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
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
When you are with young people, it is almost inconceivable that things wouldn't arise that you'd have to respond to, such as… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
When there is a gap between what's on the outside and what's on the inside, that's when people retreat into their foxholes… — 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
