Frank Bruni – The Beauty of Dusk

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Oprah sits down with New York Times journalist and best-selling author, Frank Bruni, about his book The Beauty of Dusk. Frank shares his experience after waking up one morning blind in his right eye due to a stroke. He explains the insights, the vulnerability and mindfulness practices he applied through the diagnosis and states that, "We all have a choice to focus on what we’ve lost or on what remains.”

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0:00.0	Oprah's conversation with Frank Bruney is part of Oprah Daly's The Life You Want class.
0:05.6	You can watch the full class and participate in others in the monthly series on OprahDaly.com.
0:11.2	I'm Oprah Winfrey.
0:13.6	Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast.
0:18.0	I believe that one of the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time
0:24.6	to be more fully present.
0:27.2	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:34.3	now.
0:35.3	Hello, hello, hello, and welcome everybody.
0:40.0	Hi, we have people with us from all around the world and from all corners of the United
0:44.3	States.
0:45.3	This is so fun.
0:48.1	Everybody ready to talk vulnerability.
0:51.1	What I wanted from today's class was to offer you all aha moments that leave you feeling
0:57.5	fully ready to become more vulnerable with the people around you as well as with yourself.
1:03.9	It seems that our culture and our vocabulary has put such a negative connotation on the
1:10.1	word vulnerability.
1:12.8	You all notice that?
1:13.8	That's why so many people are anxious or fearful of sharing and being vulnerable.
1:19.2	The dictionary says easily hurt or harmed.
1:21.9	Who wants that?
1:23.2	Susceptible to physical or emotional attack?
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