The most meaningful books on career and purpose don't focus on success strategies or finding your passion. They ask deeper questions: What is mine to do? How do I serve? What does it mean to bring my whole self to my work? These books reframe vocation as something you're called toward rather than something you choose. Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmer Palmer, a writer and educator, shares his own painful journey of trying to become someone he wasn't—attempting paths tha

"Be realistic. You have to survive." This is the advice we've inherited, the one we repeat to ourselves when passion stirs, the one we'll likely pass to our children if we're not careful. It sounds like wisdom. It's actually fear dressed in practicality. The belief underlying this is that survival and fulfillment are incompatible. You must choose between paying bills and doing meaningful work. Passion is a luxury. The rest of us trade our hours for money in work that slowly d