"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 don't want hear and would never tell anyone else! My life is not only about my strengths and virtues; it also about my liabilities and my limits, my trepasses and my shadow. An inevitable though often ignored dimension of of the quest for "wholeness" is that we must embrace what we dislike and find shameful about ourselves as well as what we are confident and proud of. That is why the poet says, "ask me mistakes I have made."
-Parker J. Palmer, "Let Your Life Speak"
I'm really digging my new classes. This is an excerpt from one the texts I'm reading. It's a very interesting to place to be. I'm finding the classes I ended up taking this semester are really speaking to something in me that has never been explored. Transforming in many ways. I feel like George Bailey finally getting to go to college.
Posted by Shawn (Pants) at September 4, 2006 08:48 PM