In A Hidden Wholeness, Parker Palmer reveals the same compassionate intelligence and informed heart that shaped his best-selling books Let Your Life Speak and The Courage to Teach. Here he speaks to our yearning to live undivided lives—lives that are congruent with our innContinue
In A Hidden Wholeness, Parker Palmer reveals the same compassionate intelligence and informed heart that shaped his best-selling books Let Your Life Speak and The Courage to Teach. Here he speaks to our yearning to live undivided lives—lives that are congruent with our inner truth—in a world filled with the forces of fragmentation.
Mapping an inner journey that we take in solitude and in the company of others, Palmer describes a form of community that fits the limits of our active lives. Defining a “circle of trust” as “a space between us that honors the soul,” he shows how people in settings ranging from friendship to organizational life can support each other on the journey toward living “divided no more.”
Inspired by Palmer’s writing and speaking—and challenged by the conditions of twenty-first century life—people across the country, from many walks of life, have been coming together in circles of trust to reclaim their integrity and help foster wholeness in their workplaces and their world.
For over a decade, the principles and practices in this book have been proven on the ground—by parents and educators, clergy and politicians, community organizers and corporate executives, physicians and attorneys, and many others who seek to rejoin soul and role in their private and public lives.
A Hidden Wholeness weaves together four themes that its author has pursued for forty years: the shape of an integral life, the meaning of community, teaching and learning for transformation, and nonviolent social change. The hundreds of thousands of people who know Parker Palmer’s books will be glad to find the journey continued
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書中中提及一篇莊子的《梓慶削木為鐻》(一個雕刻家的故事)後，再思牧職事奉的心態，實有助益。Parker從這文章提到幾個值得思考的問題如:guarding / fasting / forgetting外，還有：
What projections surround me？What do they come from？What drives them？How do they distort my sense of self？How am I dealing with them, and how might I deal with them better？How can I name an ... (continue)
書中中提及一篇莊子的《梓慶削木為鐻》(一個雕刻家的故事)後，再思牧職事奉的心態，實有助益。Parker從這文章提到幾個值得思考的問題如:guarding / fasting / forgetting外，還有：
What projections surround me？What do they come from？What drives them？How do they distort my sense of self？How am I dealing with them, and how might I deal with them better？How can I name and claim my own truth？
The real challenge：the formation of the human heart behind the skillful hand. (ie. The work before the work.)
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