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\nBecause we are imaginative beings, we can imagine and call into being all kinds of better possibilities for ourselves and those around us. At the same time, our imaginations can have us pretend to ourselves about the reality of our lives and experience. It\u2019s completely understandable that we do this - distracting ourselves with what Rainer Maria Rilke calls \u2018empty freedoms\u2019 is surely one way to try to avoid experiences and feelings we don\u2019t want to have.\xa0
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\nBut those distractions, those \u2018empty freedoms\u2019 do little to help us plant deep roots, or to learn how to fly when called for. So how might we turn with courage and whole hearts towards the reality of what is, as a way of opening ourselves to the possibility of acting to bring about a better future?
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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's our source for this week:
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\nHow Surely Gravity's Law\xa0
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\nHow surely gravity\u2019s law\xa0
\nStrong as an ocean current,\xa0
\nTakes hold of even the strongest thing\xa0
\nAnd pulls it toward the heart of the world.\xa0
\nEach thing \u2013 each stone, blossom, child \u2013 is held in place.
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\nOnly we, in our arrogance,\xa0
\nPush out beyond what we belong to\xa0
\nFor some empty freedom.
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\nIf we surrendered to Earth\u2019s intelligence\xa0
\nWe could rise up, rooted, like trees \u2026
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\nThis is what the things can teach us: to fall,\xa0
\nPatiently to trust our heaviness.\xa0
\nEven a bird has to do that\xa0
\nBefore he can fly.\xa0
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\nRainer Maria Rilke
\nTranslated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
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\nPhoto by Cindy Tang on Unsplash\n