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AGE IS NOT A BARRIER At age five, his Father died At age 16, he quit school At age 17 he had already lost four jobs Between 18 and 22, he was a railroad conductor and failed. He joi ned the army and washed out there. He applied for law school but was rejected. He became an insurance sales man and failed again. At age 19 he became a father At age 20, his wife left him taking their children with her, because he couldn’t hold a job. He became a cook and dishwasher in a small cafe. He eventually convinced his wife to return home. At age 65 he retired. On the 1st day of retirement he received a cheque from the Government for $105. He felt that the Government was saying that he couldn't provide for himself. He decided to commit suicide, it wasn' worth living anymore; he had failed so much. He sat under a tree writing his will, but instead, he wrote what he would have accomplished with his life. He realized there was much more that he hadn't done. There was on...

“Is the life I am living the same as the life that wants to live in me?”   With this searching question, Parker Palmer begins an insightful and moving meditation on finding one's true calling. Let Your Life Speak is an openhearted gift to anyone who seeks to live authentically. The book's title is a time-honored Quaker admonition, usually taken to mean “Let the highest truths and values guide everything you do.” But Palmer reinterprets those words, drawing on his own search for selfhood. “Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it,” he writes, “listen for what it intends to do with you. 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.” Vocation does not come from willfulness, no matter how noble one’s intentions. It comes from listening to and accepting “true self” with its limits...