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• The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

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  Self, Important, Ancient

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• I believe that movements start when individuals who feel very isolated and very alone in the midst of an alien culture, come in touch with something life-giving in the midst of a death-dealing situation. They make one of the most basic decisions a human being can make, which I have come to call the decision to live "divided no more," the decision to no longer act differently on the outside than one knows one's truth to be on the inside

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  Believe, Giving, Decision

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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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  Community, World, Might

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.108, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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 the external world and to name its underlying truth.

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  Spiritual, Reality, Names

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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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  Life, Work, Who I Am

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.4, John Wiley & Sons

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• Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness - mine, yours, ours - need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life

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  Dream, Mean, Knowing

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.

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  Decided, Values

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.3, John Wiley & Sons

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• The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.

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  Spiritual, Home, Skins

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• Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.

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  Doors, World

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.54, John Wiley & Sons

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• By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish act -- it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do so not only for ourselves but for the many others whose lives we touch.

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  Selfish, Journey, Giving

  Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.34, John Wiley & Sons

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• In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our companions will be given to us by grace. Often they will be persons who will upset our settled view of self and world. In fact, we might define true community as the place where the person you least want to live with always lives

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  Self, Views, Choices

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• Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other. In the process, we become separated from our own souls. We end up living divided lives, so far removed from the truth we hold within that we cannot know the 'integrity that comes from being what you are.

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  Integrity, Light, True Identity

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.4, John Wiley & Sons

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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.

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  Gratitude, Winning, Competition

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• I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to speech." Behind their fearful silence, our students want to find their voices, speak their voices, have their voices heard. A good teacher is one who can listen to those voices even before they are spoken-so that someday they can speak with truth and confidence.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Voice

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.47, John Wiley & Sons

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• Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die. That something was my tough and tenacious soul.

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  Animal, Self, Ego

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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• The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

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  Love, Differences, Intimacy

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• It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So we place them on top of our hearts. And there they stay until, one day, the heart breaks and the words fall in.

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  Fall, Heart, One Day

  Parker J. Palmer (2011). “Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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• Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

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  Suffering, Violence, Happens

  "If Only We Would Listen". Interview with Alicia von Stamwitz, www.thesunmagazine.org. November 2012.

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• We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.

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  Garden, Hands, Hoe

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• The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world. These are people who have come to understand that no punishment that anybody could lay on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we lay on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment, by living a divided life, by failing to make that fundamental decision to act and speak on the outside in ways consonant with what we know to be true on the inside.

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  Punishment, People, Decision

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• I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them.

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  Space, People, Internals

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?

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  Letting Go, Giving, Want

  "Today in the Mind of Parker J. Palmer". Cojourneo Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?

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  Life, Positive, Live Life

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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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  Integrity, Real, Mean

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids.

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  Education, Teacher, Kids

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