Callings: Finding and following an authentic life: Living the Authentic Life - Softcover

Levoy, Gregg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0722536259 ISBN 13: 9780722536254

Publisher: Thorsons, 1998

Synopsis

A calling is a nagging impulse, an insistent desire, a vivid dream to do something meaningful.

It might be a calling to change your job (giving up business for teaching) or your relationship or where you live. Sometimes we dismiss these callings as silly pipe dreams, impossible fantasy, or too difficult. Sometimes we’re afraid to admit them even to ourselves.

In this invaluable book, Gregg Levoy teaches us how to listen for, recognize and respond to our own true callings. He gives us tools to help us distinguish mere whim from deepest desire. Real-life stories or people who have overcome obstacles, answered their calls offering inspiration and sustenance as we learn to find our way.

About this title

About the Author

Gregg Levoy has written for Vogue, Omni, the New York Times and the Washington Post. He conducts workshops on the theme of Callings.

From the Back Cover

With inspiring insights and luminous a storytelling, Gregg Levoy teaches readers how to identify and pursue their callings in life. In the tradition of 'Care of the Soul' and 'The Road Less Travelled' this book will be a compass, an invaluable guide.

Meeting the psychological, spiritual and practical challenges of answering a call takes courage and creativity. Whether the call is to be something or to do something, whether it is to change a vocation or relationship, 'Callings' tells the often dramatic stories of real people who succeeded in following their callings through internal conflict and external opposition. Readers learn how to recognise and decipher the many disguises of calls, how to discern a true calling from a siren song, and how to recognise the consequences of refusing a call.

"'Callings' can help you discover your true vocation – and help you hear the still small voice that calls you by name."
SAM KEEN, author of 'Fire in the Belly'

"Stunning! Wonderful! Levoy writes like a poet. His material is both spiritual and practical. I don't know another book that deals with callings in quite the same way."
LARRY DOSSEY, MD author of 'Healing Words'

Gregg Levoy has written on callings and related subjects for the 'New York Times, Vogue, Omni' and the 'Washington Post'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorsons
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0722536259
• ISBN 13: 9780722536254
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352