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
Integrity requires that I discern what is integral to my selfhood, what fits and what does not-and that I choose life-giving ways… — 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
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
There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and… — 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… — 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 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
Even though kids may have planned for months for the trip to Disneyland, some may be feeling very homesick, very forlorn, or… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects… — 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
