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A review by aunnalea
The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring by Parker J. Palmer
4.0
This book helped me do a lot of thinking about the balance in my life between action and contemplation and not thinking of them as opposites but complements.
A few of my favorite quotes:
"An expressive act is one that I take not to achieve a goal outside of myself but to express a conviction, a leading, a truth that is within me. An expressive act is one taken because if I did not take it I would be denying my own insight, gift, nature. By taking an expressive act, an act not obsessed with outcome, I come closer to making the contribution that is mine to make in the scheme of things."
"The only thing we have to bring to community is ourselves, so the contemplative process of recovering our true selves in solitude is never selfish."
"Learning from failure is not a cool and calculated act. It tears at the heart and opens us against our will."
"suffering can never be solved. It can only be shared in compassion, shared in community, and every effort to put ourselves in charge of the relief effort weakens the very sharing in which our hope resides."
"A primary task for every healer is to help people understand that love is not distributed on the curve but is abundant in the very nature of things."
A few of my favorite quotes:
"An expressive act is one that I take not to achieve a goal outside of myself but to express a conviction, a leading, a truth that is within me. An expressive act is one taken because if I did not take it I would be denying my own insight, gift, nature. By taking an expressive act, an act not obsessed with outcome, I come closer to making the contribution that is mine to make in the scheme of things."
"The only thing we have to bring to community is ourselves, so the contemplative process of recovering our true selves in solitude is never selfish."
"Learning from failure is not a cool and calculated act. It tears at the heart and opens us against our will."
"suffering can never be solved. It can only be shared in compassion, shared in community, and every effort to put ourselves in charge of the relief effort weakens the very sharing in which our hope resides."
"A primary task for every healer is to help people understand that love is not distributed on the curve but is abundant in the very nature of things."