Parker Palmer
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Days 292-293 “The Whole of Who We Are”
“The only way to become whole is to put our arms lovingly around everything we’ve shown ourselves to be: self-serving and generous, spiteful and compassionate, cowardly and courageous, treacherous and trustworthy. We must be able to say to ourselves and… Continue reading
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Days 282-286 – Your Truest Voice
Frank Sinatra, Jr. (a classmate in the early 1950s) so successfully mimicked his dad’s voice that he never found his own. So many of our truths are drowned because we are afraid to speak them. The greatest value of an… Continue reading
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Day 211 – The Inner Journey of Leadership
We need each other to find our way in and through the shadow. The journey is personal but our work asks that it not be necessarily private. Continue reading
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Day 36: Living a Life Undivided
The question we must face is whether we will step out with courage, over and over, to live our lives undivided. Love calls us out of the shadows and waits there, in the Light, for us. Continue reading
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Day 213 – Living Our Way Into The Answer
The questions in our lives may create anxiety and fear, even though truth itself lies just beneath our fear. Seeing and hearing that truth comes when we are willing to “live the questions now” as Rilke so beautifully writes. Living… Continue reading
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Day 92 – Projecting Light or Shadow
I agree with Parker Palmer when he says that “the great insight of our spiritual traditions is that we co-create the world.” And we do this, in part, he says, “by projecting our spirit on it – for better or… Continue reading
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