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From Berkeley To Pendle Hill
- Parker Palmer left an academic path after Berkeley to become a community organizer in Washington, D.C. for five years, then spent 11 years at Pendle Hill where his life and vocation shifted toward writing and teaching.
- He describes that move as experimenting with communal living and discovering a calling that fit his gifts better.
Pain And Active Imagination Trigger Change
- Major life change often begins when pain becomes too deep to ignore and imagination calls toward a different life.
- Palmer argues you don't think your way into new living; you live your way into new thinking.
Experiment Toward Your Vocation
- Treat discovering vocation as experiments: try things, learn, and eliminate what doesn't fit.
- Expect failed experiments and value them for narrowing what you are not.