Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
 

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

by Parker J. Palmer

The old Quaker adage, "Let your life speak," spoke to author Parker J. Palmer when he was in his early 30s. It summoned him to a higher purpose, so he decided 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, often laughable, and sometimes grotesque.... I had simply found a... (read more)

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Aly V
  • Rated 5 stars

I read this book at a time when I was searching for myself and for direction as to the next step in my journey. It is incredibly honest and painful yet inspirational. I think Palmer is a wonderful writer and an incredible individual

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AMY S
  • Rated 2 stars

I had to read this for a class. It can be found in the "spiritual" section of the bookstore, which surprised me because it's not really that spriritual. It does take a departure, though, from personality and ability measures (MBTI, for example). Instead, the author suffuses the writings with considering what your experiences and more or less your gut is telling you about ways that different experiences are opening and closing to the reader all the time. I did not like Palmer's...

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