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Title: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer ISBN: 0-7879-4735-0 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 10 September, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.15 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Elegant, simple and a beacon to light the way
Comment: The light within can shine out of someone so that others may see the path they are on. Palmer writes of his own journey in the finest tradition of Penn, Woolman and Fox. Parker writes of his own struggles, his wrong turns, his mistakes and his revelations. The path he took is not for everyone -- but that is the point. In the Biblical tradition, we can learn from his struggles, just as we learn from the struggles of the Jews in the Old Testament and the trials and tribulations of the early Christians in the New Testament. As we search for that of God within us, we can look to the experience of others who have gone before us.
After reading LET YOUR LIFE SPEAK, I got out of a competitive, contentious field and got into a position that makes me feel like a fish in water.
A great book for non-Quakers as well as Friends.
Rating: 5
Summary: Quietly Paradoxical
Comment: Parker Palmer creates a peacful arena for understanding our own lives by sharing what he has experienced and learned from his own. I found this book to be a "quick read" on the one hand and yet I keep going back and rereading parts of it ... and then rereading the whole section.
I came away from reading this book - the first time - with a peace about my life and how I have lived it. I better understand the lessons I have been taught and more faith about the path I am following. A whole lot for a little book to accomplish.
Rating: 1
Summary: fluffy. very, very fluffy.
Comment: my god, what an obnoxious, over-wrought, self-important heap of nonsense. this man thinks far too highly of his life story, which is low on anything truely trying and high on sentimentality. i quote:
"i love 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 understand that the humiliating events of life, the events that leave 'mud on my face' or that 'makes my name mud' may create the fertile soil in which something new can grow."
well, good for you, pal. the oft-used metaphores and life stories 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 those folks, and do not reccomend this book. to anyone.
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Title: The Active Life : A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring by Parker J. Palmer ISBN: 0787949345 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 21 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Courage to Teach : Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life by Parker J. Palmer ISBN: 0787910589 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 21 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: To Know as We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey by Parker J. Palmer ISBN: 0060664517 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 28 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Courage to Teach: A Guide for Reflection and Renewal by Rachel C. Livsey, Parker J. Palmer ISBN: 0787946451 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 22 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose: Vocation and the Ethics of Ambition by Brian J. Mahan, Robert Coles ISBN: 0787956333 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 04 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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