Helen

“A politician who brings personal integrity into leadership helps us reclaim the popular trust that distinguishes true democracy from its cheap imitations.”
― Parker J. Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

“The powers and principalities would hold less sway over our lives if we refused to collaborate with them. But refusal is risky, so we deny our own truth, take up lives of "self-impersonation," and betray our identities.2”
― Parker J. Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

“For the good [person] to realize that it is better to be whole than to be good is to enter on a strait and
narrow path compared to which his [or her] previous rectitude was flowery license.”
― Parker J. Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy