You Know When It’s Time To Go, Episode 214

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 goodness in ourselves and one another, hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.

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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

Photo by Andriyko Podilnyk on Unsplash

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