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Tension, Heartbreak, and Vocation: Parker J. Palmer

By Reflections.yale.edu — 2012

“Let your life speak,” Quaker wisdom says. It took several years for Parker Palmer—teacher, writer, retreat leader, mentor—to grasp its meaning. Rather than making noble but futile attempts to emulate one’s heroes and their virtues, he says, one must be attentive to one’s own soul, to one’s “deeper and truer life waiting to be acknowledged.”

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“Which One Is the Real Me?”—A Veteran’s Transition and Identity Crisis

Like most veterans, I found the transition from military to civilian life a struggle—a tougher struggle than I had anticipated. For me, I found that one of my trickier struggles was with my identity.

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Authenticity