Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share 115: We Have Not Arrived to Explain, But to Sing
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
115: We Have Not Arrived to Explain, But to Sing
When life is dark or frightening, or when we feel stretched beyond our ordinary abilities, it's often our willingness to learn from others that can restore our capacity to respond. Other people, if we'll let them, can often give us the gift of another way of coming at life and, in particular, the gift of practices that can invite in us an entirely new orientation to the circumstances we find ourselves in. Can you imagine, for example, what it would be like to sing with people with whom we're in difficulty, before we tried to speak? A conversation about undoing our habits and finding ways of making light in the darkness together, with Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
This is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. We’re also on YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google and Spotify. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website.
Here's our source for this week:
Agenda in a time of fear: Be not afraid.
When things go wrong, do right.
Set out by the half-light of the seeker.
For the well-lit problem begins to heal.
Learn tropism toward the difficult.
We have not arrived to explain, but to sing.
Young idealism ripens into an ethical life.
Prune back regret to let faith grow.
When you hit rock bottom, dig farther down.
Grief is the seed of singing, shame the seed of song.
Keep seeing what you are not saying.
Plunder your reticence.
Songbird guards a twig, its only weapon a song.
by Kim Stafford
Photo by Ray Hennessy on Unsplash
View all episodes
By Thirdspace
5
1414 ratings
When life is dark or frightening, or when we feel stretched beyond our ordinary abilities, it's often our willingness to learn from others that can restore our capacity to respond. Other people, if we'll let them, can often give us the gift of another way of coming at life and, in particular, the gift of practices that can invite in us an entirely new orientation to the circumstances we find ourselves in. Can you imagine, for example, what it would be like to sing with people with whom we're in difficulty, before we tried to speak? A conversation about undoing our habits and finding ways of making light in the darkness together, with Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
This is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. We’re also on YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google and Spotify. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website.
Here's our source for this week:
Agenda in a time of fear: Be not afraid.
When things go wrong, do right.
Set out by the half-light of the seeker.
For the well-lit problem begins to heal.
Learn tropism toward the difficult.
We have not arrived to explain, but to sing.
Young idealism ripens into an ethical life.
Prune back regret to let faith grow.
When you hit rock bottom, dig farther down.
Grief is the seed of singing, shame the seed of song.
Keep seeing what you are not saying.
Plunder your reticence.
Songbird guards a twig, its only weapon a song.
by Kim Stafford
Photo by Ray Hennessy on Unsplash
More shows like Turning Towards Life - a Thirdspace podcast
View all
This American Life
91,287 Listeners
Good Life Project
3,375 Listeners
10% Happier with Dan Harris
12,731 Listeners
Mamamia Out Loud
663 Listeners
Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
3,915 Listeners
Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
5,152 Listeners
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
1,227 Listeners
Meditative Story
3,082 Listeners
Poetry Unbound
3,615 Listeners
People I (Mostly) Admire
2,036 Listeners
We Can Do Hard Things
41,513 Listeners
Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen
1,109 Listeners
The News Agents
1,317 Listeners
The Mel Robbins Podcast
20,306 Listeners