61. Advice For Advocates

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today’s show is about what it means to be an advocate: why and how and with what intention we should speak up for the causes we care about. We’ve pulled excerpts from three Commune courses: • Finian Makepeace talks about the importance of the “second person” who makes an idea available to new, broader audiences. • Marianne Williamson shares with us the difference between “speaking up” and “tearing down.” • Suzanne Sterling offers advice for how to discover the authentic voice that lives within you. We hope this episode gives you some tools and motivation to speak up with compassion—for yourself and for others. As Marianne Williamson says, “There's no religious or spiritual tradition anywhere that gives anyone a pass on addressing the suffering of other sentient beings.” All of these courses are represented in the Commune Summit! Sign up for free at onecommune.com/summit.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Jeff Krasno, and welcome to Commune, a global wellness community and
0:14.2	online course platform featuring some of the world's greatest teachers.
0:18.5	We are on a mission to inspire, heal, pass down wisdom, and bring
0:23.4	the world closer together. This is the Commune podcast where each week we explore these
0:30.3	ideas and practices that help us live this healthy, connected, and purpose-filled life.
0:36.5	Now, if you've been a listener of commune for a while,
0:39.5	you know that we talk a lot about how personal wellness, feeling well in your body and your mind,
0:46.0	sets you up for living a life of service, for going out into the world and engaging
0:51.4	civically, for making a difference, for speaking up, for getting your
0:56.2	voice heard.
0:57.8	Now, wellness and spiritual modalities from Buddhism to yoga are designed to inspire right action.
1:05.0	Just listen to the last step of the 12-step program.
1:08.1	Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps,
1:11.8	we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all of our
1:17.3	affairs. It's selfless service. That's where we need to be headed. And ironically,
1:23.6	giving to others is also the key to our own happiness.
1:29.0	But here's the deal.
1:30.5	You know, we're feeling good.
1:31.9	We want to help.
1:33.0	But then the humdrum pressing issues of dull care just get in the way.
1:40.7	Global warming or fixing the justice system just does not seem as immediately pressing as picking
1:47.2	Micah up from soccer or getting a healthy dinner on the table for my kiddos. Or often, to be
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