Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation Quotes

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Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract a price from others. We will make promises we cannot keep, build houses from flimsy stuff, conjure dreams that devolve into nightmares, and other people will suffer - if we are unfaithful to true sel...

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

But if I am to let my life speak things I want to hear, things I would gladly tell others, I must also let it speak things I do not want to hear and would never tell anyone else! My life is not only about my strengths and virtues; it is also about my...

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them them than we are of breathing.

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the gree...

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

The human self also has a nature, limits as well as potentials. If you seek vocation without understanding the material you are working with, what you build with your life will be ungainly and may well put lives in peril, your own and some of those a...

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

If we lived close to nature in an agricultural society, the seasons as metaphor and fact would continually frame our lives. But the master metaphor of our era does not come from agriculture - it comes from manufacturing. We do not believe that we 'gr...

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

The punishment imposed on us for claiming true self can never be worse than the punishment we impose on ourselves by failing to make that claim.

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other...

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

It took me a long time to understand that although everyone needs to be loved, I cannot be the source of that gift to everyone who asks me for it. There are some relationships which I am capable of love and others in which I am not. To pretend otherw...

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

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 repres...

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation