When Your Heart's Work Has Broken Your Heart with Parker Palmer, Ph.D.

MP3 Download Few things bring as much meaning to our lives as doing work that comes from the heart. But too often our work is thwarted by the institutions for which we work. Schools, hospitals, social service agencies, and certainly our government are often driven by factors far removed from true service. As a result, individuals who set out to do meaningful work become broken hearted as they are forced to compromise their ideals again and again. And yet, that heartbreak may hold the key to transforming our lives, our work, even the institutions within which we serve. As educator and activist Parker Palmer says, “If we know how to hold our heartbreak, the heart breaks open into something larger. This tight little fist of a thing called the heart, by being broken open, now has new capacity to hold our own pain and our own joy, and a new capacity to hold the same in the larger world. What we need is more open-hearted people in every line of work, who aren’t blinking at the fact that ther