Tag: Let Your Life Speak

“I could feel nothing except the burden of my own life and the exhaustion, the apparent futility, of trying to sustain it.”

This week, the Centers for Disease Control released a report that said that suicide rates in the United States have risen nearly 30% since 1999. With the issue of mental health in the news so frequently lately, I am looking for guidance from Parker Palmer’s essays on depression. He describes … Read More

“The deepest vocational question is not ‘What ought I to do with my life?’”

Rather, Parker Palmer writes, the more important questions are: “What am I? What is my nature?” These questions are more important because they require more self-knowledge. This knowledge must include, Palmer writes, acknowledgement of our limits and our potentials.  Of course, it’s much more difficult to develop self-awareness than it … Read More