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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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  • 342: That I Would Be Good

    342: That I Would Be Good
    Apr 28 2024
    How can we come to know the vast stores of goodness, care and benevolence that are in each of us simply by being human? What makes it possible for us to bring this goodness to bear on the many difficulties and realities that face every single human life?

    How can we do this without minimising or explaining away the dark sides of human life, and the genuine pain and confusion we can experience at what happens to us? And how do we at the same time cultivate a deep faithfulness our individual and collective capacity to respond in ways that care ever more deeply about the world?

    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:

    That I Would Be Good

    That I would be good even if I did nothing
    That I would be good even if I got the thumbs down
    That I would be good if I got and stayed sick
    That I would be good even if I gained ten pounds
    That I would be fine even if I went bankrupt
    That I would be good if I lost my hair and my youth
    That I would be great if I was no longer queen
    That I would be grand if I was not all knowing

    That I would be loved even when I numb myself
    That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed
    That I would be loved even when I was fuming
    That I would be good even if I was clingy

    That I would be good even if I lost sanity
    That I would be good whether with or without you

    Alanis Morisette

    Photo by Arthur Poulin on Unsplash
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    33 mins
  • 341: Bless This Everyday Mess

    341: Bless This Everyday Mess
    Apr 21 2024
    Right when we’re in the mess and complexity of things - for example when raising children, or being in a partnership, or working alongside others - we can learn so much about what it is to be human. And it’s where we also learn the most about our own power to make a world that is better for others to live in, or worse.

    In this week’s conversation we explore how we might turn everyday complexity into a deeper care for the world and the use of whatever power we each have for the benefit of those around us.

    We refer in this week’s conversation to Lindsay Green and Charlie Lyons’ wonderful podcast ‘Made Possible by Parenthood’ which you can find on Spotify     here.

    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:

    Bless This Dirty Sponge

    My spiritual path is not marked out by rose petals, but dirty sponges, baby wipes, frozen peas and car keys.

    Washing up is my daily Zen practice.

    Leaving parties early to get everyone home to bed is how I learn self-discipline.

    My meditation happens while I run the bath. And sometimes at 4am while I try to get back to sleep after waking to help someone use the potty.

    My masters are unusually direct and demanding. They teach me how to live without apology and how to be right where I am. Because they know there is nowhere else.

    And at the end if the day, I give myself a cup of Hail Mary tea as I forgive myself for all of the ways I felt I fell short. Again.

    And I kiss my gurus on their tiny, wise heads and prepare myself to start all over again.

    Hollie Holden

    Photo by Imani on Unsplash
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    37 mins
  • 340: Your Task is to Undo the Barriers to Love

    340: Your Task is to Undo the Barriers to Love
    Apr 15 2024
    In a time of global distress, we’re often faced with news of dire situations far from us that we can do little to affect directly. But we can learn to respond to the world that is more immediately around us with the kind of patience, wisdom, care and love that makes a genuine, tangible, and life-giving difference.

    In this week’s conversation we explore how we can observe and undo the barriers inside us to being this way. And how we enroll others in helping us to do that.

    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:

    Your Task

    Your task is not to seek for love
    but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
    that you have built against it.

    Helen Schucman, from A Course in Miracles

    Photo by Paul Mocan on Unsplash
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    34 mins
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