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Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

by ParkerJ.Palmer (Author)

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    Hardcover 1999

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 128
 Publisher: Jossey Bass
Published: 10 Sep 1999
ISBN 10: 0787947350
ISBN 13: 9780787947354

Media Reviews
Parker Palmer's writing is like a high country stream-clear, vital, honest. If your life seems to be passing you by, or youcannot see the way ahead, immerse yourself in the wisdom of thesepages and allow it to carry you toward a more attentiverelationship with your deeper, truer self. (John S. Mogabgab, editor, Weavings Journal)

An exuberant and passionate book. I was deeply moved and I cannot, nor do I want to, shake off the haunting questions that it raisesfor me. This book penetrates the soul, and it will definitely stiryou to explore more of your own inner territory. What anextraordinary achievement. (Jim Kouzes, coauthor, The LeadershipChallenge and Encouraging the Heart; chairman, Tom PetersGroup/Learning Systems)

At a time when our culture is seeking a new language forexpressing the spirit in everyday life, Parker Palmer is ourleading voice of clarity and wisdom. In Let Your Life Speak, Palmercontinues to deepen our ways of understanding the relationshipsbetween the inner life of spirit and the outer life of action. (Rob Lehman, president, The Fetzer Institute)

In our search for authentic vocation, this book should be thestarting point and deserves a prominent place in every home, school, and college. It is vintage Parker Palmer, providing hisunique insight to the interconnectedness of selfhood and vocationwith eloquence and personal experience. (Doug Orr, president, Warren Wilson College)
Author Bio
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.