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Turning Towards Life - a Thirdspace podcast

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  • Join Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise from Thirdspace for weekly conversations that ask how we might bring ourselves to life with as much courage and wisdom as we can. We start each episode with inspiring sources and then dive deep together into the questions and possibilities they open up. Find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, YouTube and FaceBook, at http://www.turningtowards.life and at http://www.wearethirdspace.org
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  • 368: One Word Spoken Slowly by the Stars

    368: One Word Spoken Slowly by the Stars
    Oct 27 2024
    We might see ourselves, as Ursula Le Guin writes, ‘one syllable of a word spoken slowly by the stars’. In this episode we wonder together what is maked possible when we reclaim and retell sacred narratives about being human, as an alternative to the mechanistic views of existence as meaning-free and humans as accidents in a cold unfeeling universe. How might these narratives help us step into a life in which we open to what is around us, and the life-giving qualities in one another?

    Hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.

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    Turning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace. Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google, Amazon Music and Spotify.

    Here’s our source for this week:

    One Word Spoken Slowly by the Stars

    “Aye,” Ged answered. “Light is a power. A great power, by which we exist, but which exists beyond our needs, in itself. Sunlight and starlight are time, and time is light. In the sunlight, in the days and years, life is. In a dark place life may call upon the light, naming it.” …

    There was a little pause; and Yarrow asked, “Tell me just this, if it is not a secret: what other great powers are there besides the light?”

    “It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man’s hand and the wisdom in a tree’s root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.”

    Staying his knife on the carved wood, Murre asked, “What of death?” [Yarrow] listened, her shining black head bent down.

    “For a word to be spoken,” Ged answered slowly, “there must be silence. Before, and after.”

    Ursula K Le Guin, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (p. 157). Orion

    Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash
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    36 mins
  • 367: The Gift of Our Attention

    367: The Gift of Our Attention
    Oct 20 2024
    Our attention is one of the most valuable gifts we can give to another. As radically social beings, we feel strongly when attention is genuinely brought our way with sufficient care and genuineness, and we long for it. And in the same way we are dignified and deepened when we bring our sincere attention to the world around us, to our experience, and to others. And so if attention is such a valuable gift and contribution to each of us, how is it that it can be so hard to bring it genuinely to those around us - those we love, those we respect, those we want to get to know, those we interact with in the midst of our day to day lives? And what might be do to cultivate the kind of mutually dignifying attention that will benefit everyone?

    Hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.

    Join Our Weekly Mailing:     www.turningtowards.life/subscribe
    Support Us:     www.buymeacoffee.com/turningtowardslife

    Turning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace. Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google, Amazon Music and Spotify.

    Here’s our source for this week:

    The Gift of Our Attention

    There is one thing, I believe, that all of us want, no matter how old we are, no matter whatever differences are between us; the one thing we cherish from another human being is attention. Love…is not certain. Some people will love us, and some people will not. But the one thing that anyone can give to any other person is simple attention. It is not as involved as in love. This attention may last 20 minutes or many hours. If you live with somebody it is repeated. "You are worthy of my attention." That, I think, is the greatest gift we can give each other.

    Magda Gerber

    Photo by Vincent van Zalinge on Unsplash
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    34 mins
  • 366: What Grief Wants

    366: What Grief Wants
    Oct 13 2024
    Some words about grief, and about grief's intelligence, and what it might be here to teach us both when it arrives in full force and when we 'catch a glimpse of it' in the moments with those we most cherish and love.

    How might grief - and its inevitability - open us to receive the life we are in the midst of right now, and how might it move us to take care of what and who we care about the most?

    Hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.

    Join Our Weekly Mailing:     www.turningtowards.life/subscribe
    Support Us:     www.buymeacoffee.com/turningtowardslife

    Turning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace. Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google, Amazon Music and Spotify.

    Here’s our source for this week:

    What Grief Wants

    I only want one thing.
    I want you to pay attention.

    I want you to look in her eyes, now,
    While there is time, while there is
    Still breath, while the magnolias unfold
    Into flower, quietly, in the garden.

    I want you to feel, all the way through,
    What it is like as she looks back at you,
    While she still can, while you are here to
    Receive, to be seen.

    I will be ready to hold you, flood you,
    Carry you, when all the gazing is done.

    I want you to receive your life,
    While there is life to receive.
    We will wail together about its loss
    In good time.

    But now is not the time for that.
    It is not the time for turning away,
    For trying to avoid anything,
    For trying not to feel.

    There will be a time when you have
    No choice but to be turned away.
    But that time is not now.

    I want you to feel what it is like to
    Release your desperate grasp around
    What you could never hold onto anyway.
    To delight in the living flow with its
    Everyday beginning and its always endings.

    I want you to feel the shining aliveness of
    Everything you will lose
    While it is still here.

    Justin Wise
    justinwise.co.uk

    Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash
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    34 mins

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