Stop Turning Away

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we explore the idea of taking ownership of our internal experience so that we can move toward more clarity, balance, and peace. Here is the poem that was recited:

Stop turning away.
Connect with
your experience,
face
the unpleasant,
what
you don’t
want to see.
No more excuses.
No more complaining.
No more blaming.
No one
is going
to save you
from
your own
intentions,
thoughts,
decisions,
actions.
Now,
it’s up to you,
to be skillful or unskillful,
to point your mind
towards
clarity, balance,
and peace
or
towards
confusion, struggle,
and dissatisfaction.
The compass
always
points inwards

-Dennis Warren

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	in today's
0:08.0	in today we're getting a little better at life.
0:07.0	I'm your host, Corey Muscarra,
0:09.0	and in today's episode, we're going to talk about not turning away.
0:15.0	More to come on that in a moment, but first, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. else. Okay, so I'd like to share a poem with you by Dennis Warren and it's called Stop Turning Away.
0:50.0	He says, stop turning away.
0:55.0	Connect with your experience.
0:58.0	Face the unpleasant, what you don't want to see.
1:03.0	No more excuses.
1:05.0	No more complaining.
1:07.0	No more blaming.
1:08.0	No one is going to save you from your own intentions, thoughts, decisions, actions.
1:17.0	Now, it's up to you, to be skillful or unskillful, to point your mind towards clarity, balance, and peace or
1:27.8	towards confusion, struggle, and dissatisfaction. The compass always struggle and I'd like to
1:35.0	always points inwards.
1:37.0	So again, that is,
1:40.0	Stop Turning Away by Dennis Warren.
1:44.1	And I'd like to go through some of it
1:46.2	and just narrate my own sense of different stanzas and give you my thoughts on it. The first thing I'll say
1:56.1	that I really like about this poem is that it's pointing to a certain ownership
2:02.3	over our experience and it comes across pretty strongly in the
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