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1. "By standing respectfully and faithfully at the borders of another's solitude, we may mediate the love of God to a person who needs something deeper than any human being can give." ~ Parker Palmer
2. "You seem to look upon depression as the hand of an enemy trying to crush you…Do you think you could see it instead as the hand of a friend, pressing you down to the ground on which it is safe to stand?" ~ Parker Palmer
3. "I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy." ~ Parker Palmer
4. "America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others." ~ Parker Palmer
5. "Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism." ~ Parker Palmer
6. "As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'" ~ Parker Palmer
7. "Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately." ~ Parker Palmer
8. "Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure." ~ Parker Palmer
9. "Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk." ~ Parker Palmer
10. "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." ~ Parker Palmer
11. "When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?" ~ Parker Palmer
12. "Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'" ~ Parker Palmer
13. "We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another." ~ Parker Palmer
14. "We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport." ~ Parker Palmer
15. "Way has never opened in front of me…but a lot of way has closed behind me, and that has had the same guiding effect." ~ Parker Palmer
16. "Like many middle-class Americans, especially those who are white and male, Iwas raised in a subculture that insisted I could do anything I wanted to do, beanything I wanted to be, if I were willing to make the effort. The message wasthat both the universe and I were without limits, given enough energy andcommitment on my part. God made things that way, and all I had to do was toget with the program. My troubles began, of course, when I started to slaminto my limitations, especially in the form of failure." ~ Parker Palmer
17. "From first days in school, we are taught to listen to everything and everyone but ourselves, to take in all our clues about living from the people and powers around us." ~ Parker Palmer

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Nevertheless he is the only one of them all who does not seem to me ridiculous. Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself."
Author: Antoine De Saint Exupéry

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