How can we love - people, life, the world - in a way that allows us to genuinely contribute? And how is that different from the kind of love that is really a strategy to have ourselves feel ok? That second kind of love might be better understood as a way that we try to control life or other people - we’ll love just as long as we get back exactly what we hoped for. The first kind of love is wilder and more surprising and, as author Maria Popova says, the great wonder is ‘how it continues to hold as it continues to change’.

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

Episode Overview
00:00 Introduction to Turning Towards Life Podcast
04:23 Exploring the Source: Maria Popova's Poem
06:17 The Nature of Love and Neediness
12:45 Distinguishing Love from Control
19:41 Loving Kindness as a Disposition
27:47 The Essence of Lovingness
31:31 Reflections on Love in Today's World

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 join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast in all the usual podcast places.

You can find our source for this week, as well as the video of this conversation, on our website here: www.turningtowards.life/home/love-is-always-wilder-than-you-suppose

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