I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life -- about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them. - Parker J. Palmer. View more images...

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. - Parker J. Palmer. View more images...

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts. When teachers depend on the coercive powers of law or technique, they have no authority at all. - Parker J. Palmer. View more images...