[embed]https://youtu.be/muArO5SWoQw[/embed]Here's week 56 of Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by thirdspace coaching in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living.You can join our members-only facebook group here to watch live and join in the lively comment conversation on this episode. You can also watch previous episodes there, and on our YouTube channel.This week we take up truth telling, which turns out to be a deep and rich subject. In our conversation we explore what it is to work against our own habits and preferences - always the move that makes development possible - and what it is to listen, deeply, even when we don't want to. And we talk together about the life-giving possibilities of listening as if we're wrong, even when we think we're right.Here's our source:
How To Tell the TruthWhen you just have to talk,try being silent.When you feel reluctant to say anything,make the effortto put what you’re feeling into words.This is a place to begin.Pushing gentlyagainst the currentof your own impulsesis an effective techniquefor dislodgingand discoveringyour truth.How to tell the truth?Taste itand remember the taste in your heart.Risk itfrom the bottom of your love.Take the riskof telling the truthabout what you’re feeling.Take the riskof telling your loved oneyour secrets.It’s trueyou might be misunderstood.Look and seeif you’re willing to trustyourselvesto misunderstand each otherand go on from there.When someone speaks to youand you feel yourself not wanting to hear ittry letting it in.You don’t have to agree that they’re right.Just take the riskof listening as if they could possibly be speakingsome truth—and see what happens.Listen as if.Listen as if you can’t always tellwhat the truth is.Listen as if you might be wrong,especially when you know you’re right.Listen as ifyou were willing to take the riskof growing beyondyour righteousness.Listen as iflove mattered.By Paul Williams
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