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\nIt's hard to be of genuine service to others from the part of us that worries about being liked. But there is something deeper in all of us that is not at all concerned about favour and is at once fiercely committed, gentle, loving and true enough to serve in an authentic, generous way.\xa0
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\n\n\nThis week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about how we might cultivate the shameless leadership that's called for right now. It's hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.\n\n
\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. 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 and Spotify.
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\nHere's our source for this week:
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\nShameless
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\n\n\nTo be in favour or disgrace
\nis to live in fear.
\nTo take the body seriously
\nis to admit one can suffer.\n\n
\nWhat does that mean,
\nto be in favour or disgrace
\nis to live in fear?
\nFavour debases:
\nwe fear to lose it,
\nfear to win it.
\nSo to be in favour or disgrace
\nis to live in fear.\n\n
\nWhat does that mean,
\nto take the body seriously
\nis to admit one can suffer?
\nI suffer because I\u2019m a body;
\nif I weren\u2019t a body,
\nhow could I suffer?\n\n
\nSo people who set their bodily good
\nbefore the public good could be entrusted with the commonwealth,
\nand people who treated the body politic
\nas gently as their own body
\nwould be worthy to govern the commonwealth.
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\n\n\nLao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, Ch13, Translated by Ursula Le Guin\n
\n\nPhoto by Vict\xf3ria Kubiaki on Unsplash\n