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Let Your Life Speak
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Drawing on his own journey through darkness and light, Parker Palmer explores the gap between "the life I am living and the life that wants to live in me." With candor and gentle humor, he invites readers to listen to the wisdom of their own experience and follow its leadings toward a sense of purpose. Using stories from his own life and the lives of others who have made a difference, Palmer raises the urgent question, "Is the life I am living my own?" He writes encouragingly about the quest for congruence between our inner and outer worlds: "Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you." Let Your Life Speak offers wisdom for all who seek the true calling of their lives.
Publishers Description
With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teacher and follow its leadings toward a sense of meaning and purpose. Telling stories from his own life and the lives of others who have made a difference, he shares insights gained from darkness and depression as well as fulfillment and joy, illuminating a pathway toward vocation for all who seek the true calling of their lives. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 117
Dimensions: Length: 0.75" Width: 5.5" Height: 7.5"
Weight: 0.4 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Sep 1, 1999
Publisher John Wiley And Sons
ISBN 0787947350
EAN 9780787947354
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About this Author/Artist PARKER J. PALMER is senior associate of the American Association for Higher Education and senior advisor to the Fetzer Institute. In 1998, he was named one of the thirty most influential senior leaders in higher education. Author of such widely praised books as The Courage to Teach and To Know As We Are Known, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the Religious Society of FriAnds (Quaker) and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
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 | Spiritual self-reflection Mar 24, 2007 |
| Palmer's book would be ideal for a rainy day read or for taking on a private retreat. He shares much learning from his life experiences. It is not a book about doing. Rather, it is a way to be integrated in one's living. One can learn to listen to their inner voice by what goes well and by recognizing one's limitations. Much food for thought. | | |  | Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation Mar 9, 2007 |
| Parker Palmer does a wonderful job in a concise why of providing us a guide to how we can learn to value our own experiences and truly listen to our inner voice. Listen in such a way as to be guided by what we are sensing and felling to help us speak through our life work and work life in ways that are self fulfilling and enriching. A very thought provoking and touching look at his own inner journey. | | | | Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation Feb 8, 2007 |
| A great look at who we are and should be | | | | calling as a gift to receive not a goal to achieve Jan 18, 2007 |
| Here is a book that I wish I had read twenty years ago on that perennial Christian conundrum faced by so many: what is God's will for me in my vocational life? I hasten to add that I am not sure that at that stage of my life I could or would have understood its wisdom. For the most part Christians try to answer this question about God's vocational guidance by going "outside" of ourselves to external matters like my skills, the advice of others, perhaps some tests, and so on. But from his Quaker tradition Palmer urges us to go "inside" ourselves to matters of the heart. When we pursue the former path a "false" self often follows the expectations that others have of us and so distorts the "true" self. Vocation, in short, is not "a goal that I pursue. It means a calling that I hear" (p. 4) or "a gift to be received" (p. 10). We discover this call or gift, writes Palmer, by listening to our life, by discovering the true self God made each of us to be, rather than by soliciting the acceptance and approval of others about what we "ought" to do. Palmer is a gifted story teller and writer, and shares liberally from his own vocational pilgrimage, warts and all. Entire chapters on clinical depression and "when way closes" (a Quaker aphorism) were helpful. A final chapter uses the seasons as a metaphor for the vocational life, reminding us as we move inevitably through fall, winter, spring and summer that, contrary to all culture tells us, we do not only "manufacture" our life, but would do well to "grow" it. | | | | Helpful for men Jan 9, 2007 |
| I was led to the book because it was one person's account of their depression. However, I found it to be much more. A component of Palmer's depression was the misconnection between the life he was living and the life that wanted to live within him and come out. That is often a found in men and their work. So our men's group at church is reading it together, reflecting on their own points of connection with Palmer's story. As we just started this past Saturday, we'll see whether it bears fruit. | | | Write your own review about Let Your Life Speak
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