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Let Your Life Speak : Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer (1999, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-100787947350
ISBN-139780787947354
eBay Product ID (ePID)1173257
Product Key Features
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameLet Your Life Speak : Listening for the Voice of Vocation
SubjectCounseling / Career Development, Leadership, Christian Education / General, Christian Life / Professional Growth
Publication Year1999
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReligion, Education
AuthorParker J. Palmer
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight6.4 Oz
Item Length7.1 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN99-006467
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Parker Palmer's writing is like a high country stream-clear, vital, honest. If your life seems to be passing you by, or you cannot see the way ahead, immerse yourself in the wisdom of these pages and allow it to carry you toward a more attentive relationship with your deeper, truer self." -- John S. Mogabgab , editor, Weavings Journa "An exuberant and passionate book. I was deeply moved and I cannot,nor do I want to, shake off the haunting questions that it raises for me. This book penetrates the soul, and it will definitely stir you to explore more of your own inner territory. What an extraordinary achievement." -- Jim Kouzes , coauthor, The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Heart; chairman, Tom Peters Group/Learning Systems "At a time when our culture is seeking a new language for expressing the spirit in everyday life, Parker Palmer is our leading voice of clarity and wisdom. In Let Your Life Speak, Palmer continues to deepen our ways of understanding the relationships between 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 the starting point and deserves a prominent place in every home, school, and college. It is vintage Parker Palmer, providing his unique insight to the interconnectedness of selfhood and vocation with eloquence and personal experience." -- Doug Orr , president, Warren Wilson College
Dewey Decimal248.4
Table Of ContentGratitudes vii I. Listening to Life 1 II. Now I Become Myself 9 III. When Way Closes 37 IV. All the Way Down 56 V. Leading from Within 73 VI. There Is a Season 95 Notes 111 The Author 115
SynopsisPLEASE NOTE: Some recent copies of Let Your Life Speak included printing errors. These issues have been corrected, but if you purchased a defective copy between September and December 2019, please send proof of purchase to josseybasseducation@wiley.com to receive a replacement copy. Dear Friends: I'm sorry that after 20 years of happy traveling, Let Your Life Speak hit a big pothole involving printing errors that resulted in an unreadable book. But I'm very grateful to my publisher for moving quickly to see that people who received a defective copy have a way to receive a good copy without going through the return process. We're all doing everything we can to make things right, and I'm grateful for your patience. Thank you, Parker J. Palmer 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., 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., "Is the life I am living the same as the life that wants to live in me?" With this searching question, Parker Palmer begins an insightful and moving meditation on finding ones true calling. Let Your Life Speak is an openhearted gift to anyone who seeks to live authentically. The books title is a time-honored Quaker admonition, usually taken to mean "Let the highest truths and values guide everything you do." But Palmer reinterprets those words, drawing on his own search for selfhood. "Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it," he writes, "listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent." Vocation does not come from willfulness, no matter how noble ones intentions. It comes from listening to and accepting "true self" with its limits as well as its potentials. Sharing stories of frailty and strength, of darkness and light, Palmer shows that vocation is not a goal to be achieved but a gift to be received. As we live more deeply into the selfhood that is our birthright gift, we find not only personal fulfillment. We find communion with others and ways of serving the worlds deepest needs. A Compassionate and Compelling Meditation on Discovering Your Path in Life 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. "Parker Palmers writing is like a high country stream-clear, vital, honest. If your life seems to be passing you by, or you cannot see the way ahead, immerse yourself in the wisdom of these pages and allow it to carry you toward a more attentive relationship 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 raises for me. This book penetrates the soul, and it will definitely stir you to explore more of your own inner territory. What an extraordinary achievement." --Jim Kouzes, coauthor, The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Heart; chairman, Tom Peters Group/Learning Systems
LC Classification NumberBV4740.P35 2000
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- 12 Aug, 2020
NOT WHAT I EXPECTED
Some people will enjoy this book. There were things I liked about the content. The author gives too many opinions as if they were facts. I also detected too much of his political ideology in this book. I commend him on being transparent about his journey through clinical depression. I read the entire book. There were moments when I had enough, but I felt there were compelling reasons to finish the book. I just had to take what I could use, and leave the rest.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 28 Nov, 2019
Highly Recommended Book
Parker Palmer offers a wonderful guide for finding your true, fulfilling vocation instead of just a job. This is a great book for a young adult who is floundering with life, wondering what he/she will find fulfilling. Highly recommended book!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 26 Oct, 2021
Finding our true selves in life
Parker Palmer's analysis of how we find our true vocation in life (based on his life and others who found theirs a different way) is fascinating and thought-provoking. The chapter on WHEN WAY CLOSES (based on the Quaker axiom WAY WILL OPEN) opened my eyes to how even the painful and shameful the closing of doors can be even more enlightening than the opening of them, which looking forward can be difficult to discern. I am ordering another of his books, as well as the Collected Poems of May Sarton, which he quotes from.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 17 Jul, 2018
IT really helped me look into my life
THe book was like new.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 10 Dec, 2018
Great offer
Great deal thank you.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 12 Oct, 2019
Great read for any vocation...
Great readVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 31 Aug, 2019
Thanks
For schoolVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 07 Dec, 2016
Heavily marked
This book was not v good but heavily marked and used.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 08 Sep, 2023
Good value
Good value, good priceVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
