July 16, 2023

301: Bird and Stone

29 minutes

How do we attend to our inner complexity? Are there ways we might relate to the many parts of us that honour both subtlety and certainty, practicality and mystery, hardness and softness, ground and sky? And what might it take for us to be the ones who bring ourselves to all of this - and to each other - in a way that fosters relationships that are nourishing and truthful, inviting and care-taking, so that we don't fall into habitual patterns that end up elevating one side of each polarity at the cost of the destruction of the other?

This week's Turning Towards Life is hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.

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Here's our source for this week:

Bird and Stone

There is a bird and a stone

in your body. Your job is not

to kill the bird with the stone.

Victoria Chang

from the book "The Trees Witness Everything"

victoriachangpoet.com

Photo by Sneha Cecil on Unsplash

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