"Why does a literary scholar study the world……" — Parker J. Palmer
"Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination."
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78 Quotes by Parker J. Palmer
Parker J. Palmer has 78 quotes on this site.
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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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We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in…
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Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
— Joyce Brothers
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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on…
— William Ames
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In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what…
— Watchman Nee
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Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
— J. G. Holland
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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also…
— Aberjhani
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If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to…
— Oswald Chambers
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A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on…
— John Owen
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The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.
— Smith Wigglesworth
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Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things…
— Oswald Chambers
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