Way Quotes by Parker J. Palmer

11 Way quotes by Parker J. Palmer

Palmer’s reflections on the Way feel like a quiet conversation with a seasoned mentor. Across eleven brief passages, he threads together authenticity, purpose, and the everyday search for meaning.

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As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

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Integrity requires that I discern what is integral to my selfhood, what fits and what does not-and that I choose life-giving ways…

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We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we…

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Technology is incredibly creative and has great potentials; but it is also very seductive in the way it isolates people, in the…

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Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of…

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There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and…

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Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve…

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Even though kids may have planned for months for the trip to Disneyland, some may be feeling very homesick, very forlorn, or…

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The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and…

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When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our…

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Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects…

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Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift.

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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.

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