Parker Palmer Quotes

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.

2020 for me is a really big year of realness and authenticity and just being who I am.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

True healing comes from owning and accepting all of life's energies within ourselves....When they are allowed to be expressed, they take their places as important facets of our nature. There is no split between 'good' and 'bad.'

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.

My goal is to make space for my selfhood. All of it. All of me, not just the parts I like or think that others like but all of it.

Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point - that, for me, is always about - and always will be as long as I do this - refining and refining and refining and refining the truth... constantly being as truthful and honest and raw and real as you can be.

In my life and my work, I really try to be just fully myself.

I have to be true to myself, and that's what I know for sure. I can't try to be anybody else.

Hima is Hima only. I haven't changed.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

However, I've learned in my life that life is about living authentically. And for me, the best moments as I look back in my life, that I became the best versions of Jeannie that I'm proud of, was when I was honest with myself.