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\nWe really don\u2019t have long. And the world keeps telling us that the answer to that is to hurry. But our hurry and fearfulness, our sense that we always have to be in control, distracted and in action, obscures a different kind of attention that is greatly needed in the world - the kind of attention we would call \u2018love\u2019.
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\nSo what becomes possible when we turn ourselves truthfully to the world with the attention of love? Not a syrupy or shallow love, but a love that\u2019s courageous enough to receive the world and to care for it in a much deeper way than our hurried minds make possible?
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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\u2019s our source for this week:
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\nWe Have Not Long to Love
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\nWe have not long to love.
\nLight does not stay.
\nThe tender things are those
\nwe fold away.
\nCoarse fabrics are the ones
\nfor common wear.
\nIn silence I have watched you
\ncomb your hair.
\nIntimate the silence,
\ndim and warm.
\nI could but did not, reach
\nto touch your arm.
\nI could, but do not, break
\nthat which is still.
\n(Almost the faintest whisper
\nwould be shrill.)
\nSo moments pass as though
\nthey wished to stay.
\nWe have not long to love.
\nA night. A day...
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\nTennessee Williams
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\nPhoto by Jonatan Pie on Unsplash\n