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
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
“First, the subjects we teach are as large and complex as life so our knowledge of them is always flawed and partial.… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“Every profession that attracts people for reasons of the heart is a profession in which people, and the work they do, suffer… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“Teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I… — 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
“This book is for teachers who have good days and bad and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from… — 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
As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Students want to know, "Are you painting by the numbers, or are you really present as a human being to what you… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are. — 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
