212: Always Be Vulnerable to All That You Are

Published: Oct. 24, 2021, 12:08 p.m.

\nWhen we learn to include more and more of ourselves, we also become more able to include more and more of one another. Being able to do this - to welcome that in us that's fearful, ashamed or lonely, as well as what's joyful, grateful and love-filled - is greatly helped by finding the bigger-something that we are... the something of us that's wide and deep, curious and compassionate and which is, essentially, welcome. And that's something we can also help one another with.
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\n\n\nThis week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about how 'inclusivity' starts with us and between us, hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.\n\n
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\nHere's our source for this week:
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\n\n\nAlways be vulnerable\nTo your pain, your fear, your loneliness,\nTo your pleasure too, and your joy,\nTo all that travels through you.\nDon\u2019t close the doors\nTo these pilgrims from a far-off land,\nBut welcome them all ---\nOne a wild, restless spirit\nSecretly longing to be tamed,\xa0\nAnother a lover on a long, sweet night,\nWho only wants to melt in your embrace.\nFor this is how you grow ---\nBy including everything.\nAlways, always be vulnerable\xa0\nTo all that you are.
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\n\n\nFrom \u201cPoems of Love and Awakening\u201d by John Welwood\n\n
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\nPhoto by Erika Fletcher on Unsplash\n