Let Your Life Speak - by Parker J Palmer (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>PLEASE NOTE: Some recent copies of <i>Let Your Life Speak</i> 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 </b><b>josseybasseducation@wiley.com</b><b> to receive a replacement copy.</b></p> <p><b>Dear Friends: </b> I'm sorry that after 20 years of happy traveling, <i>Let Your Life Speak</i> 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</p> <p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>LET YOUR LIFE SPEAK</p> <p>"Is the life I am living the same as the life that wants to live in me?" With this searching question, Parker Palmer begins an insightful and moving meditation on finding one's true calling. <i>Let Your Life Speak</i> is an openhearted gift to anyone who seeks to live authentically. <p>The book's title is a time-honored -Quaker admonition, usually taken to mean "Let the highest truths and values guide everything you do." But Palmer reinterprets those words, drawing on his own search for selfhood. "Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it," he writes, "listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent." <p>Vocation does not come from willfulness, no matter how noble one's intentions. It comes from listening to and accepting "true self" with its limits as well as its potentials. Sharing stories of frailty and strength, of darkness and light, Palmer shows that vocation is not a goal to be achieved but a gift to be received. <p>As we live more deeply into the selfhood that is our birthright gift, we find not only personal fulfillment. We find communion with others and ways of serving the world's deepest needs.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Parker Palmer's writing is like a high country stream-clear, vital, honest. If your life seems to be passing you by, or you cannot see the way ahead, immerse yourself in the wisdom of these pages and allow it to carry you toward a more attentive relationship with your deeper, truer self.<br />--<b>John S. Mogabgab</b>, editor, Weavings Journa<br /><br />An exuberant and passionate book. I was deeply moved and I cannot, nor do I want to, shake off the haunting questions that it raises for me. This book penetrates the soul, and it will definitely stir you to explore more of your own inner territory. What an extraordinary achievement.<br />--<b>Jim Kouzes</b>, coauthor, The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Heart; chairman, Tom Peters Group/Learning Systems <p>At a time when our culture is seeking a new language for expressing the spirit in everyday life, Parker Palmer is our leading voice of clarity and wisdom. In Let Your Life Speak, Palmer continues to deepen our ways of understanding the relationships between the inner life of spirit and the outer life of action. <br />--<b>Rob Lehman</b>, president, The Fetzer Institute</p> <p>In our search for authentic vocation, this book should be the starting point and deserves a prominent place in every home, school, and college. It is vintage Parker Palmer, providing his unique insight to the interconnectedness of selfhood and vocation with eloquence and personal experience. <br />--<b>Doug Orr</b>, president, Warren Wilson College</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>The Author</b> 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 <i>The Courage to Teach, The Active Life, </i> and <i>A Hidden Wholeness</i>, 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.
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