People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to be on the outside? Is there congruence between what's within that person and the words and actions I'm viewing and hearing externally?" Children ask that about their parents; students ask it about their teachers; parishioners ask it about their pastors and priests; employees ask it about their bosses; and in a democracy, citizens ask it about their political leaders.
Parker J. PalmerIf we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -- risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract.
Parker J. PalmerScience requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
Parker J. PalmerThe inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.
Parker J. Palmer