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\nWe\u2019re taught that what\u2019s most of value in life is what we can explain, that which can be illuminated by the daylight, and which we can see and know. But the shadows and darkness have gifts too - gifts of belonging, and gifts of freedom, and a way of teaching us what to give up in order to take up the one life that is our own.\xa0
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\n\n\n\nWhat if we approached the non-obvious not as something to run from, but as a doorway into a life beyond? Can we honour the underneath and the behind and the dark and what cannot be put into words?
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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. 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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\nSweet Darkness
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\n\n\nby David Whyte (davidwhyte.com)
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\n\n\nWhen your eyes are tired
\nthe world is tired also.
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\n\n\nWhen your vision has gone,
\nno part of the world can find you.
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\n\n\nTime to go into the dark
\nwhere the night has eyes
\nto recognise its own.
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\n\n\nThere you can be sure
\nyou are not beyond love.
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\n\n\nThe dark will be your home
\ntonight.
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\n\n\nThe night will give you a horizon
\nfurther than you can see.
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\n\n\nYou must learn one thing.
\nThe world was made to be free in.
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\n\n\nGive up all the other worlds
\nexcept the one to which you belong.
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\n\n\nSometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
\nconfinement of your aloneness
\nto learn
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\n\n\nanything or anyone
\nthat does not bring you alive
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\n\n\nis too small for you.
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\n\n\nPhoto by David Gabri\u0107 on Unsplash
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