Parker Palmer Quotes

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

As I grow older, I feel like my authentic self has been able to shine through more and more, and people can see that.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

You're always just going to be who you are.

I think when you live your destiny, you allow yourself to get in touch with your inner essence. What's difficult in life is the economic and social requirements that distract us from bringing forth our true passion.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

If you don't feel fabulous, you have deviated from the path of who-you-really-are.

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather