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• Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being degenerate into deathly specters of themselves. Solitude split off from community is no longer a rich and fulfilling experience of inwardness; now it becomes loneliness, a terrible isolation. Community split off from solitude is no longer a nurturing network of relationships; now it becomes a crowd, an alienating buzz of too many people and too much noise.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Loneliness, Opposites, People

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.68, John Wiley & Sons

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• What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

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  Political, Analysis, Tools

  "Real-World Change Can Come From Within" by Parker J. Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2012.

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• Even though kids may have planned for months for the trip to Disneyland, some may be feeling very homesick, very forlorn, or very marginalized by the group. Your capacity to perceive those kinds of situations and respond to them in a pastoral way is the stuff you are teaching. And even though the kids may appear to be ignoring you, they are very aware of what you are doing and how you are doing it. They are also very aware of what you are missing and not picking up on.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teaching, Kids, Missing

  "El viaje del profesor: Entrevista con Parker J. Palmer". Entrevista con Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.

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  Imagination, Doe, Fiction

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.55, John Wiley & Sons

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• If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the church or seen as less important than being a senior minister in a large, prosperous congregation; but I don't believe that for a minute. I think this is absolutely critical work in the life of the church; and I think my path in life would have been much different if it hadn't been for my youth minister, Burt Randle, and a series of campus ministers in both college and graduate school.

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  Senior, Believe, School

  "El viaje del profesor: Entrevista con Parker J. Palmer". Entrevista con Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• ... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity - that is rooted in two basic beliefs. First, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader. Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help us discern the inner teacher's voice.

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  Teacher, Integrity, Circles

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• I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Thinking, People, Church

  "El viaje del profesor: Entrevista con Parker J. Palmer". Entrevista con Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• Descubrir la vocación no significa luchar por un premio que está fuera de mi alcance, sino aceptar el tesoro del verdadero yo que ya poseo.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Mean, Self, Treasure

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.10, John Wiley & Sons

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• A menudo existe una desconexión angustiosa entre las buenas palabras que pronunciamos y la forma en que vivimos nuestras vidas. En las relaciones personales y en la política, en los medios de comunicación de masas, en la academia y en la religión organizada, nuestras buenas palabras tienden a alejarse flotando incluso cuando salen de nuestros labios, ascendiendo a una altitud en la que ni reflejan ni conectan con la condición humana. Anhelamos que palabras como amor, verdad y justicia se hagan carne y habiten entre nosotros. Pero en nuestro mundo violento, es arriesgado envolver nuestra frágil carne con palabras como esas, y no nos gustan las probabilidades.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Odds, Media, Like Love

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• In 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.

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  Kindness, Spring, Winter

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• Integrity requires that I discern what is integral to my selfhood, what fits
  and what does not-and that I choose life-giving ways of relating to the forces that converge within me: Do I welcome them or fear them, embrace them or reject them, move with them or against them? 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, Moving

  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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• God ain't finished with any of us yet.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Terminado

  "El viaje del profesor: Entrevista con Parker J. Palmer". Entrevista con Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.

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  Quiet, Holy, Focused

  "El viaje del profesor: Entrevista con Parker J. Palmer". Entrevista con Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?

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  Death, Real, Comforting

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring”, Jossey-Bass

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• Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teaching, Humans, Human Activity

  Parker J. Palmer, Megan Scribner (2007). "The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal", p. 102, John Wiley & Sons.

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• I don't do a lot of top-down teaching.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teaching, Top Down

  "El viaje del profesor: Entrevista con Parker J. Palmer". Entrevista con Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• I understand that there are forms of entertainment that can make people weep or jazz them up so they feel like they have had an experience. But I also know that an hour later that's faded and you are back to the difficult realities of your own life. And we need to help people know how to go beyond those difficulties to a place where God dwells.

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  Reality, People, Needs

  "El viaje del profesor: Entrevista con Parker J. Palmer". Entrevista con Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!

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  Crazy, Adults, Needs

  Source: www.youthworker.com

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• When you are with young people, it is almost inconceivable that things wouldn't arise that you'd have to respond to, such as someone wrestling on the bus. And how you handle that, how you respond to that, how you deal with that is a lesson to the people you are on the bus with.

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  Wrestling, People, Lessons

  "El viaje del profesor: Entrevista con Parker J. Palmer". Entrevista con Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• My high school, like most high schools, had a pretty rigid stratification system. Kids were clustered into groups - the studious ones, the athletes, the popular ones - and we never crossed paths with each other. You stayed in your air-tight group, and you were suspicious of people in other groups.

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  Athlete, School, Kids

  "El viaje del profesor: Entrevista con Parker J. Palmer". Entrevista con Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• Good teaching comes from good people.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Education, Teaching, People

  Parker J. Palmer, Megan Scribner (2007). “The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal”, p.107, John Wiley & Sons

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• No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and the known, we could know nothing except the wall itself. Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known. That encounter has moments of distance, but it would not be an encounter without moments of intimacy as well. Knowing of any sort is relational, animated by a desire to come into deeper community with what we know.

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  Wall, Distance, Knowledge

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• I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Reality, Thinking

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. February 20, 2009.

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• In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power to resist falsehood and live in the light of truth, not by external norms but by reasoned and reflective self-determination. The inward teacher is the living core of our lives that is addressed and evoked by any education worthy of the name.

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  Education, Teacher, Determination

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.32, John Wiley & Sons

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• I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.

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  Teacher, Blessed, Significant

  "El viaje del profesor: Entrevista con Parker J. Palmer". Entrevista con Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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