Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

Parker J. Palmer

Wiley, 2000 - Religion - 117 pages

PLEASE 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 [e-mail] 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.

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User Review  - Paul-the-well-read - LibraryThing

The full title of the book includes the phrase, "Listening to the Voice of Vocation," which could mislead one (such as me) into thinking the book was about careers. But the book is really not about ...

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User Review  - Narshkite - LibraryThing

Astonishing. This is my field, I read a lot about vocation for work, and this is quiet simply the best book on the topic I have ever read. If the bad poetry were excised it would be perfect, but its ...

Contents

• Now I Become Myself: 9
• When Way Closes: 37
• All the Way Down: 56

About the author

The Author Writer, teacher, and activist Parker J. Palmer is senior associate of the American Association for Higher Education and senior adviser 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, The Active Life, and A Hidden Wholeness, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation; A Jossey Bass title
• Author: Parker J. Palmer
• Edition: braille
• Publisher: Wiley, 2000
• ISBN: 0787947350, 9780787947354
• Length: 117 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christian Education / General; Religion / Christian Life / Professional Growth; Religion / Christian Life / Spiritual Growth; Religion / Christian Theology / General; Religion / Christianity / General; Religion / Leadership; Social Science / Sociology of Religion