One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it,… — 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
Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it… — 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
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
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
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 a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the… — 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
