All Parker J. Palmer Quotes
- 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 onto… Activity
- How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply… Alive
- In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work. Education
- Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student. Meet
- I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to speech."… Behind
- Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness. Activity
- Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are. Students
- In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power to resist falsehood… Addressed
- Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being… Alienating
- Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses. Accepting
- We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are… Backs
- Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known. Encounter
- Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort… Effort
- The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love,… Beings
- Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Funny
- We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed. Funny
- Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Brokenness
- Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite… Anything Real
- It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So we place them on… Break
- Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one's self. It is not about the absence of… Absence
- The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change… Accepting
- Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve lost the idea… Agreeing
- When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be… All
- By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish… Act
- The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we can speak to the teacher within our… Doe
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