Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.
Parker J. PalmerThe winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them.
Parker J. PalmerHumility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.
Parker J. PalmerWe 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.
Parker J. PalmerIn my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.
Parker J. PalmerTags: hope
A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.
Parker J. PalmerTags: scholar
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
Parker J. PalmerTags: life vocation being life-plan
Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks--we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.
Parker J. PalmerTags: inspirational
As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.
Parker J. PalmerScience requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
Parker J. PalmerTags: science
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