Summary Of Parker J. Palmer's Let Your Life Speak

Hearing in the voice of our inner soul

The renowned author Parker J. Palmer wrote his one of masterpiece, Let Your Life Speak, which genre is autobiographical spirituality. The topic of the book is that listening to the voice of vocation within. His purpose of writing is that suggesting the way of discovering a vocation, bring his whole life, which has pursued what his real vocation is. His audience is those who are struggling to find their authentic vocation, but, in fact, all people can be his audience because everyone need and want to find their real vocation. The focal point of the book is that vocation comes from discovering and listening an inner voice of which it places in the inner side of a self. Palmer works in a wide range of institutions as a writer, teacher, and activist who work independently on issues in education, community, leadership,

But, Palmer mentions: “Trying to live someone else’s life, or to live by an abstract norm, will invariably fail – and may even to great damage”. He describes his autobiographical life to show how his inner world is going on to find his vocation through his real experience. Given this, it needs to hear a voice of true self, which is made by God, not a voice of outside, and live along with the voice of true self, which leads to discern vocation.

His inductive approach to lead his readership to discern the real vocation considerably arouses empathic understanding to them. Surprisingly, he recalls his tough times frankly and then invites readers to walk on his prior conflicts between his inner soul and external way to see which way makes him happy. According to Dr. Steve Stutz, who is a spiritual director and a CTA certified life coach, “A key strength of the book is its autobiographical, self-revelatory approach to vocational