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Let Your Life Speak Parker J. Palmer

Let Your Life Speak By Parker J. Palmer

Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmer


$20.99
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Summary

In this text, the author invites the reader to listen to the inner teacher and follow its leadings toward a sense of meaning and purpose. Telling stories from his life and the lives of others, he shares insights illuminating a path toward vocation for all who seek the true calling of their lives.

Let Your Life Speak Summary

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by 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.

Let Your Life Speak 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

About Parker J. Palmer

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.

Table of Contents

Gratitudes. Listening to Life. Now I Become Myself. When Way Closes. All the Way Down. Leading from Within. There Is a Season. Notes. The Author.

Additional information

GOR001584152
9780787947354
0787947350
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer
Used - Very Good
Hardback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
1999-09-10
128
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Customer Reviews - Let Your Life Speak