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
Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already… — 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
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
Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our… — 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
Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power… — 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
I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is… — 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
