Parker Palmer Quotes

Parker J. Palmer is an author, educator, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He is the founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage & Renewal.

✵ 1939
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Parker Palmer Quotes about nature

“… honoring one’s created nature”

Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999), p. 51

“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.”

Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999), p. 50

Parker Palmer Quotes

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

Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999), pp. 59-60

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

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999)

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

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999)

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

Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999), p. 51

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