Just Beyond Yourself, Episode 141

Just beyond ourselves, just outside all the ways we've taken ourselves to be, just beyond our certainty and the familiar ways we know ourselves... Just here, beyond ourselves, something is calling all the time, something which we discover in our willingness to be affected by, to be changed by, the 'other' in other people and in the world.

A conversation about the possibilities that come when we notice and drop our defences, 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.

Our source for this week is chosen for us by Lizzie.

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Just Beyond Yourself

Listen
Just beyond
yourself.

It’s where
you need
to be.

Half a step
into
self-forgetting
and the rest
restored
by what
you’ll meet.

There is a road
always beckoning.

When you see
the two sides
of it
closing together
at that far horizon
and deep in
the foundations
of your own
heart
at exactly
the same
time,
that’s how
you know
it’s the road
you
have
to follow.

That’s how
you know
it’s where
you
have
to go.

That’s how
you know
you have
to go.

That’s
how you know.

Just beyond
yourself,
it’s
where you
need to be.

– David Whyte

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