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\nBeing open to the world, to experience, to being changed by what's around us and within us, may be one of the great human capacities, and precisely what allows us to make community and relationship, and to respond with wisdom, creativity and love to the challenges and gifts of our times. But it's greatly diminished by that in us which wants to manipulate and control, which insists on reducing to right and wrong, and the impulse in us which demands certainty. Those qualities are needed, indeed, but as support to our openness rather than as a way of dominating it. So how do we stay open to life as it happens? And how do we keep ourselves from closing down?
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\n\n\nThis week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about the practice of standing in our lives prayerfully and willingly, 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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\nYou can find out more about our Professional Coaching Course, which we talk a little about in this episode, on the Thirdspace website here.
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\nHere's our source for this week:
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\nWhat Open Means
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\nTo be open means receptive,
\nable to be touched.
\nOpen means undefended,
\nwith an inner "yes" resounding
\nloud and clear. It means
\nreally being here, present
\nand awake. Open means willing
\nto take the moment in.
\nIt is a choice, a discipline,
\na surrender of my being
\nto the truth. Open is a state
\nof mind, a way of life,
\na refusal to close down.
\nImagine a flower in full bloom.
\nIn your mind's eye, see a tree
\nwith leaves that welcome in
\nthe sunlight. See the night sky
\nfilled with stars and empty spaces.
\nI pray to be that open today,
\nwith plenty of room for the
\nmystery to fill. I pray to be
\nso open the universe spills in,
\npours out, and leaves me
\ndrenched in wonder.
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\nDanna Faulds
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\nPhoto: Katerina Pavlyuchkova | Unsplash \xa0