Reality—including one’s own—is divine, not to be defied but honored. - Parker Palmer

There is as much guidance in way that closes behind us as in way that opens up ahead of us. The opening may reveal our potentials while the closing may reveal our limits—two sides to the same coin, the coin called identity.

Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing.

The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials, is a profoundly moral regimen.