Parker Palmer Short Quotes

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I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope.

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Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.

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Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.

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The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them.

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Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

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We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

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Reality—including one's own—is divine, not to be defied but honored.

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If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract the price from others.

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Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

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Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

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In depression, the built-in bunk detector that we all possess is not only turned on but is set on high.

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As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

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I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.

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Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

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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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The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

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I will always have fears, but I need not be my fears, for I have other places within myself from which to speak and act.

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The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials, is a profoundly moral regimen.

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Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.

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Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.

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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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By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.

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We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.

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Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

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We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.

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I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

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I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

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Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.

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One of the hardest things we must sometimes do is to be present to another person's pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

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