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If I try to be or do something noble that has nothing to do with who I am, I may look good to others and to myself for a while. But the fact that I am exceeding my limits will eventually have consequences. I will distort myself, the other, and our relationship—-and may end up doing more damage than if I had never set out to do this particular “good.” When I try to do something that is not in my nature or the nature of the relationship, way will close behind me…. When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself—-and me—-even as I give it away.
— Doing Who I Am
Parker Palmer
Source: Let Your Life Speak
Parker Palmer
Source: Let Your Life Speak
