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\nJust beyond ourselves, just outside all the ways we\u2019ve taken ourselves to be, just beyond our certainty and the familiar ways we know ourselves\u2026 Just here, beyond ourselves, something is calling all the time, something which we discover in our willingness to be affected by, to be changed by, the \u2018other\u2019 in other people and in the world. A conversation about the possibilities that come when we notice and drop our defences, with Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\nThis is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. We\u2019re also on YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google and Spotify. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website.
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\n\n\nOur source for this week is chosen by Lizzie.
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\nJust Beyond Yourself
\nby David Whyte
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\nListen
\nJust beyond
\nyourself.
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\nIt\u2019s where
\nyou need
\nto be.
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\nHalf a step
\ninto
\nself-forgetting
\nand the rest
\nrestored
\nby what
\nyou\u2019ll meet.
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\nThere is a road
\nalways beckoning.
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\nWhen you see
\nthe two sides
\nof it
\nclosing together
\nat that far horizon
\nand deep in
\nthe foundations
\nof your own
\nheart
\nat exactly
\nthe same
\ntime,
\nthat\u2019s how
\nyou know
\nit\u2019s the road
\nyou
\nhave
\nto follow.
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\nThat\u2019s how
\nyou know
\nit\u2019s where
\nyou
\nhave
\nto go.
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\nThat\u2019s how
\nyou know
\nyou have
\nto go.
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\nThat\u2019s
\nhow you know.
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\nJust beyond
\nyourself,
\nit\u2019s
\nwhere you
\nneed to be.
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Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash
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