Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

their inner darkness-and emerge with the capacity to lead the rest of us toward community, toward "o ...

most. One of our instructors hacked me up to the edge of a cliff 110 feet above solid ground. He tied a ...

"You still don't have it," the instructor said helpfully. "OK," I said, "tell me again what I a ...

To this day, I do not know where my words cane from, though I have twelve witnesses to the fact ...

OUT OF THE SHADOW AND INTO THE LIGHT If we, as leaders, are to cast less shadow and more light, we need ...

"Dr. Jones's office-this is Nancy speaking." The boss has a title and a last name but the person (usually ...

A second shadow inside many of us is the belief that the universe is a battleground, hostile to human ...

A third shadow common among leaders is "functional atheism," the belief that ultimate responsibility ...

teachers and CEOs-are deeply devoted to eliminating all remnants of chaos from the world. We wan ...

Within our denial of death lurks fear of another sort: the fear of failure. In most organizations, fail ...

like? First, we could lift up the value of "inner work." That phrase should become commonplace in fam ...

hours pose honest, open questions to help you discover your inner truth. Communal processes o ...

potentials I have explored in this chapter. It is no accident that all of the world's wisdom traditions ...

FROM LANGUAGE TO LIFE Throughout this book, I have looked at selfhood and vocation through metaphor ...

community and its call to leadership, into the world of nature, that most vast of all the ...

lives. But the master metaphor of our era does not come from agriculture-it comes from m ...

Transformation is difficult, so it is good to know that there is comfort as well as challenge in the me ...

on the decline of meaning, the decay of relationships, the death of a work. And yet if I look ...

need each other for health, as my body needs to breathe in as well as breathe out. But in a culture t ...

that someone here once did something very, very bad, and we are still paying the price for that tran ...