A Hidden Wholeness

The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

A Hidden Wholeness is a thoughtful and heartfelt examination of sources and consequences of the alienation we feel when our inner and outer lives become divorced from each other, when external forces pressure us to depart from our soul's true yearnings.

The book lifts up the problem of the "divided life", diagnoses its sources, assesses its personal and social costs, and offers a model of community that will help people live with greater integrity and wholeness.

As he did for vocation in Let Your Life Speak and for the inner lives of teachers in The Courage to Teach, best-selling author and teacher Parker J. Palmer speaks to the heart of our yearning for integrity, authenticity, and wholeness in a fractured world.

Parker J. Palmer holds a Ph.D. from the University of California - Berkeley. He is a founder and senior partner of the Center for Courage and Renewal, senior associate of the American Association for Higher Education, and senior advisor to the Fetzer Institute. In 1998, he was named one of the 30 most influential senior leaders in higher education.

©2004 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Parker J. Palmer's latest book is a gift...a guide for living...compassionate, deeply insightful...heart opening and transforming." ( BookSense)
"This book is a treasure - an inspiring, useful blueprint for building safe places where people can commit to 'act in every situation in ways that honor the soul.'" ( Publishers Weekly)

Impactful

This is one of the most important books I have ever read (or listened to).

life hacks

love the book! read it twice. eye opening on how to be with others and yourself.

Another Wonderful Journey

This is the second audio book from Parker J. Palmer for me. My life is richer for having spent the quiet hours listening.

Important book for folks interested in sacred activism

This is a poetically written book. Palmer offers simple, but ground breaking ideas for personal change that radiate out to community wide change and beyond. Sample topics are how to illicit the inner teacher, how to invite the soul forward and what is an open and honest question that aids in these processes.

A truly effective and profound view of living a more genuine life

Parker palmers writing is clear and direct and profound in reminding me that my compass is within but that i draw the map of my trail with the outside world and those I live with
I have had my understanding of what matters most to me clarified and strengthen by the circle of trust experience