A Hidden Wholeness The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

by Palmer, Parker J.

• ISBN13: 9780470453766
• ISBN10: 0470453761
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-02
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

The author of the bestselling "Let Your Life Speak" and "The Courage to Teach" speaks to people's yearning to live undivided lives--lives that are congruent with their inner truth--in a world filled with the forces of fragmentation.

Author Biography

Parker J. Palmer is a highly respected writer, lecturer, teacher, and activist. His work speaks deeply to people from many walks of life, including public schools, college and universities, religious institutions, corporations, foundations, and grass-roots organizations. The Leadership Project, a 1998 survey of 10,000 American educators, named him one of the thirty most influential senior leaders in higher education and one of ten key "agenda-setters" of the past decade. Author of six previous books–including the bestsellers Let Your Life Speak and The Courage to Teach–his writing has been recognized with eight honorary doctorates and several national awards. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

Gratitudes

Prelude: The Blizzard of the World

Images of Integrity: Living "Divided No More"

Across the Great Divide: Rejoining Soul and Role

Explorations in True Self: Intimations of the Soul

Being Alone Together: A Community of Solitudes

Preparing for the Journey: Creating Circles of Trust

The Truth Told Slant: The Power of Metaphor

Deep Speaks to Deep: Learning to Speak and Listen

Living the Questions: Experiments with Truth

On Laughter and Silence: Not-So-Strange Bedfellows

The Third Way: Nonviolence in Everyday Life

Notes

The Author

Index

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