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On the life that wants to live in you.
I can't control life. I can only do my best at each step, and to honor the life flowing through me. I would rather live my full truth than box myself into what might look like success to others.
The path of aliveness has often been tumultuous for me, but it’s not always so dramatic. Sometimes it's not the path to break up, to move, to quit—s
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Parker J. Palmer • Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
There’s a tremendous friction that arises when you don’t allow yourself to do what you really want to do with your life. You make a lot of halfway decisions to negotiate your competing priorities: what you want, and what you want to want.
Dan Shipper • Every’s Master Plan
“Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, 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.”1 PARKER PALMER
Paul Millerd • Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
“Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, 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.”1 PARKER PALMER
Paul Millerd • Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
“Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, 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.”1 PARKER PALMER
Paul Millerd • Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
Kierkegaard said that the greatest hazard of all is losing oneself — dangerous because it occurs so quietly. To be fully ourselves, then, is a thunderous feat. It is to resist the inertia of comfort and conformity and half-lived lives; to engage in the deliberate, demanding act of self-authorship rather than assuming a role that has already been wr... See more
What is worthy of your one life?
This question is a call to wake up, to turn off the autopilot that so easily steers us day in and day out. It’s an invitation to break free from routine, to step back and see your life with fresh eyes. To shake the dust off dreams you’ve left on the shelf. To ask yourself if you’re truly living, or just going through... See more
This question is a call to wake up, to turn off the autopilot that so easily steers us day in and day out. It’s an invitation to break free from routine, to step back and see your life with fresh eyes. To shake the dust off dreams you’ve left on the shelf. To ask yourself if you’re truly living, or just going through... See more