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\n\u201cWhat is it like, such intensity of pain?\u201d writes Rainer Maria Rilke. While we might ask one another in our more difficult moments \u201cHow are you?\u201d or perhaps \u201cHow are you doing?\u201d, we less often ask Rilke\u2019s deeper question, a question that helps us and one another make contact with the aliveness and mystery of our being human.
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\nAnd so in this week\u2019s conversation we explore together what it is to treat our own experience of \u2018the happenings of life\u2019 with reverence and respect, and start to see how this reverence and respect can help us inhabit the coming and going of all kinds of experience as a vibrant and necessary kind of gift for ourselves and for those around us.
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\nHosted, 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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\nLET THIS DARKNESS BE A BELL TOWER
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\nQuiet friend who has come so far,
\nfeel how your breathing\xa0
\nmakes more space around you.
\nLet this darkness be a bell tower
\nand you the bell. As you ring,
\nwhat batters you becomes your strength.
\nMove back and forth into the change.
\nWhat is it like, such intensity of pain?
\nIf the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.
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\nIn this uncontainable night,
\nbe the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,
\nthe meaning discovered there.
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\nAnd if the world has ceased to hear you,
\nsay to the silent earth: I flow.
\nTo the rushing water, speak: I am.
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\nRainer Maria Rilke
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\nPhoto credit / Arturo Rey on Unsplash
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