[embed]https://youtu.be/76jzC21bySw[/embed]In this episode Lizzie and I read and talk about 'Soul Food', a chapter of the 'The Way and the Power of the Way' by Ursula Le Guin.Together we explore the ways in which certainty can make us rigid and closed to the world and to one another, how we try (unsuccessfully) to make the world and others into our own image (a huge part of the societal struggles we're in at this time in history), and how the simple act of learning to load the dishwasher together can be a path towards the kind of humility and openness that's life giving and makes for profound and responsive relationship. Along the way we come to a new understanding of what the name of our coaching company 'thirdspace' might mean, and how coaching can be a way of helping ourselves and others open ever more fully to life.Here's the source for our conversation:
Soul Food
Everybody on earth knowingthat beauty is beautifulmakes ugliness.
Everybody knowingthat goodness is goodmakes wickedness.
For being and non beingarise together;hard and easycomplete each other;long and short shape each other;high and lowdepend on each other;note and voicemake the music together;before and afterfollow each other.
That’s why the wise souldoes without doing,teaches without talking.
The things of this worldexist, they are;you can’t refuse them.
To bear and not to own;to act and not lay claim;to do the work and let it go;for just letting it gois what makes it stay.
Ursula LeGuin - from ‘Tao Te Ching: The Way and The Power of The Way’
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