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\n'There are only two directions,' writes Quinn Bailey, 'towards and away'. Towards our lives or away from them. Towards life itself, or away from it. But is it always a choice? And when it is a choice, how do we go about even noticing which we are choosing? And what is it to act in harmony with life's longing for us, what with all the complex shaping forces within us and around us that can sometimes be so hard to comprehend, let alone work with?
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\nThis week's Turning Towards Life is hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\nTurning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace.\xa0 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, Amazon Music and Spotify.
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\nHere's our source for this week:
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\nThe Only Two Directions
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\nThis world has only two true directions:
\nTowards and away.
\nThe big fear, in the end, is to awake and find that
\nYou chose away.
\nThat the hand
\nWhich held you down
\nWas none other
\nThan your own.
\nRemember
\nThe pursuit
\nOf that which is not truly us
\nRenders even the most
\nPowerful vision useless
\nRecognize
\nWhen the boulder in front of the cave begins to shift
\nWhen that first illuminating shaft
\nPierces the dark
\nDo not hesitate long
\nDo not waste time
\nAnticipating the griefs
\nYet to come
\nThey cannot be helped and perhaps are necessary
\nOn that long
\nAnd awkward walk
\nTowards yourself
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\nby Quinn Bailey
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\nPhoto by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash
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