About this episode
The episode explores the nature of truth, love, and the importance of letting go to embrace the flow of life.
Without honesty, life becomes a pantomime. And yet it’s hard to know what’s true. I’ve found that truth unfolds in concentric rings; like ripples in a still pool of water, or the growth of a tree. And each ring references, yet also takes space from, the previous. And so only in cycles of time, and in seasons, is a kind of long term knowing revealed. It’s easy to forget that there is a kind of glacial energy to the every day, like leaves unnoticed piling in drifts in the gutters in autumn. Each day another leaf, and soon enough, there’s a drift of half noticed moments, forgotten days, and the occasional memory that stays forever. And this is life? Through the threads of being and days, acting and passivity, choices and impositions, life passes. There’s a phrase in the northern part of Italy, up against the alps: “Tiempo alla passa. Passa il bin.” Which is dialect for: Time passes. Pass it well. And I came across a phrase, translated from Lao Tze by Lori Dechars, that says: How do I know the way of things at the beginning? I feel like I’ve come to a thought about life and love in general recently that feels clear: which is that I should let what loves me do so, and I should love…
People in this episode
Host: Hudson Gardner
Topics covered
- truth
- life
- love
- resistance
- self-discovery
- time
Keywords
- honesty
- life cycles
- energy
- memories
- self-acceptance
- personal growth
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Lori Dechars
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