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How do we face life as it is, with all its inevitable difficulty and with all the meaning and love we might be able to bring to it? And how do we find that in ourselves that is life itself, and live more often from there so that we can meet life with life?
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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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\nThe Facts of Life
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\nThat you were born
\nand you will die.
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\nThat you will sometimes love enough
\nand sometimes not.
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\nThat you will lie
\nif only to yourself.
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\nThat you will get tired.
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\nThat you will learn most from the situations
\nyou did not choose.
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\nThat there will be some things that move you
\nmore than you can say.
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\nThat you will live
\nthat you must be loved.
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\nThat you will avoid questions most urgently in need of
\nyour attention.
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\nThat you began as the fusion of a sperm and an egg
\nof two people who once were strangers
\nand may well still be.
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\nThat life isn\u2019t fair.
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\nThat life is sometimes good
\nand sometimes better than good.
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\nThat life is often not so good.
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\nThat life is real
\nand if you can survive it, well,
\nsurvive it well
\nwith love
\nand art
\nand meaning given
\nwhere meaning\u2019s scarce.
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\nThat you will learn to live with regret.
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\nThat you will learn to live with respect.
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\nThat the structures that constrict you
\nmay not be permanently constraining.
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\nThat you will probably be okay.
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\nThat you must accept change
\nbefore you die
\nbut you will die anyway.
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\nSo you might as well live
\nand you might as well love.
\nYou might as well love.
\nYou might as well love.
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