With Equal Reverence Towards Sorrow and Joy, Episode 446

Cultivating both joy and sorrow within us. Seeing what they are made of, so that we can approach them with reverence rather than trying to control them or banish them. And finding out that that the more we go on in lives, the more we can know and the more we can have faith that we can meet what life brings us.

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

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Our source for this week:

Blessed is the person
who delights in seeing
the inner child in every one
and the magic in all creatures
who does not shun difficulty
and can turn with equal reverence
toward sorrow and joy
who can trust fear as
the balsam of courage
and pain as an instrument
for opening the heart
who can pause to notice
the delicate lustre of a lichen
and the undulations of the light
who dares to make hope
an axiom of being
and is strong enough
to be changed by love.

Maria Popova, from The Almanac of Birds

Photo by Ramona Edwards on Unsplash

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