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• The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their serial fieldwork experiences and their lives. Illustrating the dense interweaving of the personal and the professional that is the hallmark of anthropology as a vocation, these essays are at once affectively deep reflections, and clear-eyed assessments, of lives often lived 'between here and there.' Alma Gottlieb's idea to stimulate these articles and bring together this collection was inspired.

  Sherry Ortner

  Powerful, Reflection, Assessment

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• We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

  Hannah More

  Mistake, Lying, Exercise

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.447

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• Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern, and when its many activities are no longer seen and experienced as part of prayer itself, the community quickly degenerates into a club with a common cause but no common vocation.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Community, Doe

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• Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Mean, Self, Treasure

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.10, John Wiley & Sons

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• Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions…..Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live-but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Real, Heart, Who I Am

  Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.13, John Wiley & Sons

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• Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

  Nita Ambani

  Motherhood, Challenges, World

  "Ever wonder if you’ll make it through motherhood?" by Linda G, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2017.

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• I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

  Anish Kapoor

  Artist, Facade, Felt

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• I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

  Derek Walcott

  Religious, Prayer, Believe

  Derek Walcott, William Baer (1996). “Conversations with Derek Walcott”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Education and training for all children to be equal in opportunity in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions of training in the professions and vocations in life; to be regulated on the capacity of children to learn, and not on the ability of parents to pay the costs. Training for life's work to be as much universal and thorough for all walks of life as has been the training in the arts of killing.

  Huey Long

  Art, Children, School

  Number 7 in the sum and substance of the Share our Wealth program (1935), as quoted in Hugh Davis Graham "Huey Long" (p. 74), 1970.

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• Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society , from politics , from history , for the very reason that it has itself the vocation to be a source of criticism. It is faith (lived in the incognito) which triggers the issues for the others, which causes everything seemingly established to be placed in doubt , which drives a wedge into the world of false assurances.

  Jacques Ellul

  Issues, Doubt, Criticism

  Jacques Ellul (2012). “Hope in Time of Abandonment”, p.298, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I think those who choose to find joy in serving others, those who choose to find their voice, to pursue their vocation and to act on their vision oftentimes have to sacrifice much.It's almost like a crucifixion in terms of the cross you have to bear.

  Cornel West

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.

  Milton Friedman

  Jobs, Political, Income

  "The Best of Both Worlds". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. June 1995.

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• By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual, success in business is in itself almost a sign of spiritual grace, for it is a proof that a man has laboured faithfully in his vocation.

  R. H. Tawney

  Spiritual, Men, Self

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion and the Rise of Capitalism”, p.210, Verso Books

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• The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders.  Sanctity is intimacy with God; it is the imitation of Christ, poor, chaste and humble; it is unreserved love for souls and self-giving to their true good; it is love for the church which is holy and wants us to be holy, because such is the mission that Christ has entrusted to it.  Each one of you must be holy also in order to help your brothers pursue their vocation to sanctity.

  Pope John Paul I

  Brother, Humble, Self

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• You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around personality you must have interest outside of your regular vocation that will serve to balance your business responsibilities.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Business, Responsibility, Play

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• In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.

  Merold Westphal

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Passion

  Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.49, Penn State Press

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• In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

  John Carroll

  Children, Necks, Intention

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.27, Taylor & Francis

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• The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

  Lawrence Reed

  Moral, Quiet, Influence

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• To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.

  Mircea Eliade

  Believe, Sacrifice, Twenties

  Mircea Eliade (1990). “Autobiography, Volume 1: 1907-1937, Journey East, Journey West”, p.200, University of Chicago Press

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• My proposal is not that we understand what the word ‘god’ means and manage somehow to fit Jesus into that. Instead, I suggest that we think historically about a young Jew, possessed of a desperately risky, indeed apparently crazy, vocation, riding into Jerusalem in tears, denouncing the Temple, and dying on a Roman cross-and that we take our courage in both hands and allow our meaning for the word ‘god’ to be recentered around that point.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Crazy, Mean

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• Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel According to the Blues, Gary brings his vocation as a New Testament teacher together with his passion for the blues and gives the reader scholarly knowledge and wise insight.

  Steve Stockman

  Wise, Teacher, Book

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• To be active is the primary vocation of man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Action, Active

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• In a medical sense I'm a prophet. But I'm not unique. I mean there are many prophets in many different vocations. I happen to be one of them, without sounding too egotistical I am a pioneer. I am doing pioneering stuff in neurosurgery. There is stuff that I'm doing that no-one else is doing.

  Charles Teo

  Mean, Unique, Different

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• My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands. But when I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Country, Children, Wall

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• I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

  Michael Moriarty

  Acting, Calling, Kind

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