Don't Be Ashamed to be Human, Episode 36
Here's episode 36 of 'Turning Towards Life', a weekly, live 30 minute deep dive into the bigger questions of human life, with Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of thirdspace coaching.
This week, "Don't Be Ashamed to be Human". So many of us figure that we have to go through life essentially alone, like super-heroes, hiding all our difficulties and failures and in the process finding ourselves far away from the joys of deep human contact and support. We wonder about what it takes to turn towards the life-giving support of others, and how coaching, community, friendship and family can be ways of entering into this with one another.
We also talk about the extraordinary two-day introduction to Integral Development Coaching, 'Coaching to Excellence' which will be offered by Thirdspace in London on 1st-2nd October 2018.
Romanesque Arches
Tourists have crowded into the half-dark of the enormous
Romanesque church.
Vault opening behind vault and no perspective.
A few candle flames flickered.
An angel with no face embraced me
and his whisper went all through my body:
"Don't be ashamed to be a human being, be proud!
Inside you one vault after another opens endlessly.
You'll never be complete, and that's as it should be."
Tears blinded me
as we were herded out into the fiercely sunlit piazza,
together with Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Herr Tanaka and Signora Sabatini;
within each of them vault after vault opened endlessly.
– Tomas Tranströmer
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