“Somewhere within you is a calling. It’s yours and no one else’s. It’s the haze of the daydream, the synchronistic event, the symbols buried in your nightly dreamscapes, the still small voice crying alone in the wilderness of your life and waiting to be answered. Oft ignored, suppressed, feared, it’s a calling that allows us to lead genuine lives true to ourselves. As Gregg Levoy explains in Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life, to follow our callings may not come easily. It may bring pain, suffering, fear, a separation from the past - but it brings something deeper: authenticity. If we follow a calling, we may even be startled to find the immense potential latent in each of us; following our callings may be the best thing we can do for the world.
This isn’t a step-by-step How To, Levoy’s poetic book is a work of deep beauty and wisdom that gently guides with the voice of experience and ancient knowledge passed down through the sands of time. I heartily recommend it and don’t balk in saying that reading it changed my life.*
Set it out in a breeze and see what pages the wind opens to you, as you must open yourself to the universe. Your journey starts today. It’s your calling rising in the back of your throat, waiting to be sung - a song of what Kahlil Gibran called “Life’s longing for itself.”
(*Note that it's not the book that will change your life; it's you who will do that. The book is just powerful enough to give you the courage to actually do it.)”
shaunmdaniel wrote this review Thursday, February 9, 2012.
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