"We are exploring together. We are cultivating a……" — Parker J. Palmer
"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 digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives."
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78 Quotes by Parker J. Palmer
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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…
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How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power…
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In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
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Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.
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I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is…
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Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.
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Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
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In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has…
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Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of…
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Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self…
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Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
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Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions…
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