To William Stafford’s, “Ask me if what I have done is my life,” Parker Palmer reflects on the old Quaker mantra, “Let your life speak,” saying, I found those words encouraging and I thought I understood what they meant: “Let the highest truths and values guide you. Live up to those demanding standards in everything you do.” He goes on to describe his noble intentions that led him to pursue lofty goals and dead end best hopes and dreams to the likes of our world’s most accomplished saints, MLK Jr., Mother Teresa, Gandhi, stating that he had “simply found a noble way to live a life that was not [his own], a life spent imitating heroes instead of listening to his heart. He goes on to say that “today, some thirty years later, “Let your life speak” means something else to me, a meaning faithful both to the ambiguity of those words and to the complexity of my own experience: “Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you”.