Quotes
Authors
Parker J. Palmer

"The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change but accepting us exactly as we are. And yet this unconditional love does not lead us to rest on our laurels. Instead, it surrounds us with a charged force field that makes us want to grow from the inside out - a force field that is safe enough to take the risks and endure the failures that growth requires."

Source : Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.60, John Wiley & Sons

Parker J. Palmer

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“The land is so much more than its analysis.”
“I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.”
“For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me...I don't understand what there is in the American character...that almost automatically, even when we have a liberal President, we support fascist dictatorships or are tolerant towards them.”
“Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.”
“Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of earth's unhonored things Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun; And the mind whirls and the heart sings, And a shout greets the daring one.”
“I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.”
“The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In the processes of cell division and growth, that they participate In the transmission of hereditary characters, and that they are important constituents of viruses. An understanding of the molecular structure of the nucleic acids should be of value In the effort to understand the fundamental phenomena of life.”
“There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die”

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