2022-12-22
1 小时 2 分钟It is profoundly therapeutic to be able to stand up in your world, whatever that world may be, private, public, whatever, and say, I am all of the above.
This is who I am.
I am my darkness and I am my light.
And that became part of my ongoing healing.
So, as we all head towards the.
End of this year wondering what might happen if you let go of what.
You thought your life would or should.
Be or look like, and just created.
The space to let it show you what it truly yearns to be.
And then followed that thread that has been the experience of today's guest, Parker Palmer.
So, graduating Berkeley with a PhD in 69, he thought he'd head into the role of academia, but instead found himself heading to DC to become an activist and community organizer for about five years.
But something else began to call him.
And he took what he felt would.
Be this short sojourn to a Quaker learning community.
That turned into eleven years.
And over that time, a new sense of calling emerged as a writer and a speaker, an educator.
That was his form of activism that just fit him profoundly better and allowed him to focus on issues in education, community leadership, spirituality, and social change.
And Parker is now the founder and senior partner emeritus of the center for Courage and Renewal, which offers long term retreat programs for people in the serving professions, including teachers, physicians, nonprofit leaders and clergy, and others.
And along the way, he has written a series of best selling books, including a hidden Wholeness, let your life speak, the company of strangers, and on the brink of everything, grace, gravity, and getting old.
In this deeply moving best of conversation, Parker shares this journey and many of the insights that have sort of dropped into his life along the way in this incredibly kind and gentle and open and vulnerable way.