• One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

    Parker J. Palmer: One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.
    Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons