Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
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- ISBN13: 9781433222009
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Finding one s calling is not just about finding something we can do it is about finding what we can t not do. Let your life speak is a time-honored Quaker admonition to live one s life as witness to the deepest truths one knows. But as Parker Palmer clarifies, persons words can also mean listen to your life, and let it tell you what your truth is. Craft, he writes, comes not from external demands but from listening to the right self, a listening that will permanently call us into some form of service to others. Though the details of our journey are singular, we draw from it that which is universal.This book is a moving and illuminating guide for anyone who seeks not just a job but a calling and companionship along the way.Amazon.com Review
The ancient Quaker maxim, “Let your life speak,” spoke to leader Parker J. Palmer when he was in his early 30s. It summoned him to a privileged purpose, so he chose that henceforth he would live a nobler life. “I lined up the most elevated ideals I could find and set out to achieve them,” he writes. “The results were rarely admirable, regularly laughable, and sometimes grotesque…. I had simply establish a ‘noble’ way of living a life that was not my own, a life spent imitating heroes as a replacement for of listening to my heart.”
Thirty years later, Palmer now understands that learning to let his life speak means “living the life that wants to live in me.” It involves making the kind of silent, trusting conditions that allow a soul to speak its truth. It also means tuning out the loud defined thoughts about what a craft should and shouldn’t be so that we can better hear the call of our wild souls. There are no how-to formulas in this extremely unpretentious and well-written book, just fireside wisdom from an elder who is willing to share his mistakes and tales as he learned to live a life worth language about. –Gail Hudson
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my god, what an obnoxious, over-wrought, self-vital heap of nonsense. this man thinks far too highly of his life tale, which is low on anything truely trying and high on corniness. i quote:
“i like the fact that the word humus, the dacayed vegatable matter that feeds the roots of plants, comes from the same root that gives rise to the word humility. it is a blessed etymology. it helps me know that the humiliating events of life, the events that place ‘mud on my face’ or that ‘makes my name mud’ may make the fertile soil in which something new can grow.”
well, excellent for you, pal. the oft-used metaphores and life tales that are not incoherent are utterly laughable in a droll, sugary way that does not lend itself to serious reading. some people may be capable of enjoying such writing and finding it truly inspiring. i am not one of persons folks, and do not reccomend this book. to anyone.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is small more than a (mercifully) fleeting autobiography of an arrogant and misguided know-it-all. Reflect of the most self-centered and obnoxious person you know, and then question yourself if you’d want to read a book they’d written about their own life. To me the book was hard to read because I establish the leader’s personality so annoying. Even when he admits to building mistakes, he fervently hints that it was because he was more intelligent or more ethical than everyone else around him.
Also, throughout the book, he kept blowing the trumpet and waving the banner of his Liberal politics. He apologized a few times for being born a white male, but then he used it as an excuse because, he says, our society teaches all white males that they can do anything they want to do in life. And he feels the pain of all who are not white males because, he says time and again, that our society is, rumor has it that lacking exception, sexist, racist and homophobic. In one overwrought metaphor, he advises that we should all strive to be like Rosa Parks and sit down on the bus of life and name and aver what is ours. Huh?
Palmer has, for now, concluded that his craft is to be a writer. Based on this book, I can’t agree. Therefore, I cannot recommend a book on craft written by a name who has rumor has it that chosen the incorrect craft.
If you’re looking for a book that is truly full of wisdom, get Thomas Merton’s, No Man Is An Island. The entire book sings, and it contains an brilliant chapter on craft.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is for people who are searching for avowal that life gives you ups AND downs, that this is okay, and that there may be a reason for why your life is leading the direction that it is. A book that brings a lot of mind churning to the person reading, trying to see just where do “I fit in/how does this help me.”
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I read the first 80 pages of this book carefully, but just looked at the subjects afterwards. I don’t reflect the book helped me because I matured as I quit focusing on myself. This book suggessts the opposite.
Palmer writes very well about this journey, but I didn’t learn what most of us need- to be lees self-distant.
Sorry, I would not recommend the book, though I know many would be impressed by it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I establish this book to be an appealing read into one man’s journey toward self-discovery. He has some excellent insights into how one might take a different view of the world and find one’s right craft.
From my perspective, it was a bit too self-absorbed and self-engrandizing. I would recommend this book to anyone that is depressed about his or her life and needs to find a potential source of comfort. If you have a honestly excellent sense of self, this book may not be of fantastic benefit.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5