You Know When It's Time To Go
Episode 214, Nov 07, 2021, 12:20 PM
If we look patiently, we'll sometimes see that underneath the 'presenting surface' of our lives is something within us working away patiently, persistently, lovingly, courageously. That something - a kind of essential goodness - has often begun working with what we care most about even before we've consciously begun ourselves. What would it be to see and trust that essential goodness within us and within one another, and to give it a name - as David Whyte does in the luminous poem that's our source for this week's conversation.
If we look patiently, we'll sometimes see that underneath the 'presenting surface' of our lives is something within us working away persistently, lovingly, courageously. That something - a kind of essential goodness - has often begun working with what we care most about even before we've consciously begun ourselves. What would it be to see and trust that essential goodness within us and within one another, and to give it a name - as David Whyte does in the luminous poem that's our source for this week's conversation?
This week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about seeing the goodness in ourselves and one another, hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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Here's our source for this week:
YOU KNOW WHEN ITS TIME TO GO
Even in the midst
of thinking
you’ll
never be ready
even when
you feel
you have never
deserved
that freedom
to go
even under
the comforting
illusion
that you
never had
a single speck
of faith
in what
you want
you have
already packed,
your silent
reluctance away,
lifted your ear
to the morning
birdsong
and before
anyone
can wake
you are
already
out the door,
down the road
round the corner
and on your way.
…
Excerpt from
‘You Know When It’s Time to Go’
from ‘STILL POSSIBLE’ Poetry by David Whyte