Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, 25th Anniversary Edition
Parker J. Palmer
Jul 2024 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Stephen Bel Davies
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"Is the life I am living the same as the life that wants to live in me?" With this searching question, bestselling author Parker J. Palmer begins his insightful and moving meditation on finding our way toward meaning and purpose. As readers of many ages, backgrounds, and walks of life will attest, Let Your Life Speak is an elegant and openhearted gift to all who seek to live authentically.
Let Your Life Speak offers no simplistic formulas for finding a meaningful path through life's complexities. Instead, it offers real-life experience, thoughtfully mined for insight and wisdom:
● Learn how to listen to your inner teacher and follow its guidance toward a sense of meaning and purpose
● Reframe your life as a series of "experiments with truth," learning from those that fail as well as those that work
● Understand that the doors that close behind you can offer as much guidance as those that open up
● Gain inspiration and resolve from the lives of seekers who have walked this path before you
Enjoy the wisdom, compassion, gentle humor, and companionship of a master teacher in a beloved book that has helped hundreds of thousands of people find their way toward meaning and purpose.
Let Your Life Speak offers no simplistic formulas for finding a meaningful path through life's complexities. Instead, it offers real-life experience, thoughtfully mined for insight and wisdom:
● Learn how to listen to your inner teacher and follow its guidance toward a sense of meaning and purpose
● Reframe your life as a series of "experiments with truth," learning from those that fail as well as those that work
● Understand that the doors that close behind you can offer as much guidance as those that open up
● Gain inspiration and resolve from the lives of seekers who have walked this path before you
Enjoy the wisdom, compassion, gentle humor, and companionship of a master teacher in a beloved book that has helped hundreds of thousands of people find their way toward meaning and purpose.
About the author
Parker J. Palmer was born in 1939 in Chicago. He attended Carleton College where he studied Philosophy and Sociology and graduated in 1961. He then went on to complete his Phd in Sociology at UC Berkeley. After graduation, he took a teaching position at Georgetown University and became involved with the Religious Society of Friends at Pendle Hill. He is the founder and Senior Partner of the Center for Courage and Renewal which operates the "Courage to Teach" program for K-12 educators across the country. He has published over one hundred essays and eight books. He has also been recognized with thirteen honorary degrees, two Distinguished Achievement Awards from the National Educational Press Association, and grants from the Danforth Foundation and the Lilly Endowment. Parker Palmer's title's include: The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life, To Know As We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey, and On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old.
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