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How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.

Parker J. Palmer

How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.

Tags: fullfilment, happiness, inspirational, life, reality

The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about themselves and their world. In a...

Parker J. Palmer

The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about themselves and their world. In a...

Tags: grammar, heart, subjectivity, teaching

About Author
Parker J. Palmer is an American author, educator, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He has published ten books and numerous essays and poems, and is founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage and Renewal. His work has been recognized with major foundation grants, several national awards, and thirteen honorary doctorates.

Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort to penetrate the illusions of t...

Parker J. Palmer

Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort to penetrate the illusions of t...

Tags: ethics, morality, reality, spirituality, tradition, values

Each time I walk into a classroom, I can choose the place within myself from which my teaching will come, just as I can choose the place within my students toward which my teaching will be aimed. I ne...

Parker J. Palmer

Each time I walk into a classroom, I can choose the place within myself from which my teaching will come, just as I can choose the place within my students toward which my teaching will be aimed. I ne...

Tags: fear, free will, teaching

Alice Kaplan is a teacher of French language and literature, and she has done this kind of remembering in a book called French Lessons. Why do people want to adopt another culture? she asks as she sum...

Parker J. Palmer

Alice Kaplan is a teacher of French language and literature, and she has done this kind of remembering in a book called French Lessons. Why do people want to adopt another culture? she asks as she sum...

The writer Anne Lamott says, You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.28

Parker J. Palmer

The writer Anne Lamott says, You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.28

We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.

Parker J. Palmer

We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.

Tags: self

The message of such silence is simple: "we the people" will no longer conspire in supporting the illusions that help corrupt leaders maintain control. By withholding our cheers and falling into silenc...

Parker J. Palmer

The message of such silence is simple: "we the people" will no longer conspire in supporting the illusions that help corrupt leaders maintain control. By withholding our cheers and falling into silenc...

Tags: democracy, dissent