Parker Palmer

“Instead of telling our valuable stories, we seek safety in abstractions, speaking to each other about our opinions, ideas, and beliefs rather…

— Parker Palmer

Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of…

— Parker Palmer

When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands…

— Parker Palmer

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But…

— Parker Palmer

“By standing respectfully and faithfully at the borders of another’s solitude, we may mediate the love of God to a person who…

— Parker Palmer

“We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.”

— Parker Palmer

“Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else…

— Parker Palmer

“There is as much guidance in what does not and cannot happen in my life as there is in what can and…

— Parker Palmer

Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.

— Parker Palmer

Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

— Parker Palmer

We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a…

— Parker Palmer

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that…

— Parker Palmer

“Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits,…

— Parker Palmer

“You seem to look upon depression as the hand of an enemy trying to crush you…Do you think you could see it…

— Parker Palmer

“When we so fear the dark that we demand light around the clock, there can be only one result: artificial light that…

— Parker Palmer

We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace…

— Parker Palmer

I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of…

— Parker Palmer

Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

— Parker Palmer

Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time…

— Parker Palmer

America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam,…

— Parker Palmer

Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this…

— Parker Palmer

As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on…

— Parker Palmer

Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I…

— Parker Palmer

“Way has never opened in front of me…but a lot of way has closed behind me, and that has had the same…

— Parker Palmer

“Self-care is never a selfish act - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was…

— Parker Palmer