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Callings

Name: Callings
Author: Gregg Levoy
ISBN: 9780517705698

by Gregg Levoy

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Overview

How do we know if we're following our true callings? How do we sharpen our senses to cut through the distractions of everyday reality and hear the calls that are beckoning us? Callings is the first book to examine the many kinds of calls we receive, and the great variety of channels through which they come to us. A calling may be to do something (change careers, go back to school, leave or start a relationship, move to the country, have a child) or to be something (more creative, less judgmental, more loving). You may be called toward or away from something, called to change or renew your commitment to something, or called to return to a place or pursuit in an entirely new way. You may be called toward whatever you have dared and double-dared yourself to do for as long as you can remember. Gregg Levoy draws on the hard-won wisdom and powerful stories of people who have followed their own calls, to show us the many ways to translate a calling into action.

About the Author, Gregg Levoy

GREGG LEVOY, author of This Business of Writing, is a full-time freelance writer whose essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Omni, Psychology Today, and others, and is the recipient of a first-place writing award from the Associated Press. Formerly a columnist for the Cincinnati Enquirer and adjunct professor of journalism at the University of New Mexico, he actively lectures and teaches workshops about callings.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

A "calling" may not come in the form of a booming voice from the sky, complete with lightning flashes and claps of thunder. Levoy, a workshop leader and adjunct professor of journalism at the University of New Mexico, suggests that callings are in fact everywhere, waiting to be heard and acted upon. Through informal yet encouraging anecdotes and advice, Levoy guides readers to recognize and pursue their callings in work, relationships, lifestyle choices and service to others. Callings can come through many different channels, including physical symptoms, "synchronicities" (events that are connected to one another in time), intuitions, dreams-even fortune cookie messages. All one need do is recognize them, and take action. Combining the psychology of self-actualization with spirituality, he calls on readers to do what their souls have long been telling them to do. For Levoy, realizing one's own potential and awakening to callings makes it possible to do virtually anything, from quitting one's job to saving the whales. Not doing so, he claims, can lead to maladies from restlessness and depression to physical illness: "We cannot refuse with impunity." In the crowded field of books about letting go and listening to the heart, Levoy's guidance and encouragement reward those willing to lend an ear to their conscience. Author tour. (Oct.)