
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

we must embrace what we dislike or find shameful about ourselves as well as what we are confidentand proud of.
Parker J. Palmer • Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
My life is not only about my strengths and virtues; it is also about my liabilities and my limits, my trespasses and my shadow.
Parker J. Palmer • Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
there is a great gulf between the way my ego wants to identify me, with its protective masks and self-serving fictions, and my true self.
Parker J. Palmer • Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
see-that the life I am living is not the same as the life that wants to live in me. In
Parker J. Palmer • Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
That insight is hidden in the word vocation itself, which is rooted in the Latin for "voice." Vocation does not mean a goal that I pursue. It means a calling that I hear.
Parker J. Palmer • Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling the who I am. I
Parker J. Palmer • Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
I sometimes catch a glimpse of my true life,
Parker J. Palmer • Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart