How to Begin Your Journey to Wholeness with Parker Palmer
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Parker J. Palmer, is the founder and Senior Partner of the Center for Courage & Renewal. He is a world-renowned writer, speaker and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He has reached millions worldwide through his nine books, including Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, A Hidden Wholeness, and Healing the Heart of Democracy.
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Parker Palmer and I Discuss and …
- His book, Hidden Wholeness: A Journey Towards an Undivided Life
- What the idea of “the Soul” means to him
- His experiences with depression and the lesson he’s learned from it
- What “the divided life” is
- The importance of having both community and solitude
- The idea of “The Circle of Trust”
- The importance of letting another person work their way to the answer themselves
- His book, Healing the Heart of Democracy
- The important role that conflict brings to our form of government
- The Five Habits of the Heart
- Eustress is the positive effect of tension
- The two ways that the heart can break
- How those with different viewpoints can find common ground
- The Courage and Renewal Center
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| 0:00.0 | In case you're just recently joining us, or however long you've been a listener of the show, |
| 0:04.4 | you may not realize that we have years and years of incredible episodes in our archives. |
| 0:09.1 | We've had so many wonderful guests that we've decided to hand pick one of our favorites. |
| 0:13.6 | It might be new to you, but if not, it's definitely worth another listen. |
| 0:17.5 | We hope you'll enjoy this episode with Parker Palmer. |
| 0:21.2 | We have multiple voices within us, and it's not always clear even when we're not in a state of |
| 0:27.0 | depression that we're listening to True Self. |
| 0:38.1 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:39.9 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:44.7 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:50.3 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:54.5 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:59.3 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 1:02.1 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 1:05.6 | But it's not just about thinking. |
| 1:07.6 | Our actions matter. |
| 1:09.1 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 1:14.0 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. |
| 1:18.4 | How they feed their good walls. |
| 1:33.8 | Where were you in 92? |
| 1:35.2 | Bouncing your butt to surmix a lot? |
| 1:36.7 | Wondering if you, like Billy Ray Cyrus, could pull off a moment? |
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