Writer, teacher, and activist, Parker J. Palmer is author of the widely praised books: The Courage to Teach, The Active Life, and A Hidden Wholeness. The title of this book, LET YOUR LIFE SPEAK, is a time honored Quaker admonition usually taken to mean “let the highest truths and values guide everything you do.” Parker J. Palmer reinterprets these words to say “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”. In this book, Palmer proclaims that vocation does not come from willfulness, no matter how noble one’s intentions. Rather, it comes from listening to and accepting one’s “true self” with its limits as well as its potentials.
