Inward
By Yung Pueblo
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Yung Pueblo
Diego Perez was born in Ecuador and immigrated to the United States as a child. He grew up in Boston and attended Wesleyan University. During a silent Vipassana meditation course in 2012, he saw that real healing and liberation were possible. He became more committed to his meditation practice while living in New York City. The results he witnessed firsthand moved him to describe his experiences in writing. The penname yung pueblo means “young people” and is meant to convey that humanity is entering an era of remarkable growth and healing, when many will expand their self-awareness and release old burdens. Diego’s online presence as yung pueblo, as well as his books, are meant to serve those undertaking their own journey of personal transformation. Today, Diego resides in Western Massachusetts with his wife, where they live quietly and meditate daily.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I cannot recommend this book enough times! One of the best of its kind! Absolutely real!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Therapy in poetry form. Self-reflective and heartwarming. Wish more people can read this
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love Yung Pueblo's book clarity and connection also inward. A new perspective of life. Free ourselves so we can grow.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Absolutely potent wisdom!! Must read and really allow yourself to sit with it. ??
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I absolutely loved this, it had so many quotes I loved and will revisit again again.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Powerful words but sometimes i feel it a bit repetitive
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Just amazing. Felicidades hermano. Continue your success, always and forever.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I absolutely loved this book. I had my journal and book out at the same time digging into the deeps of my being and soul. Asking the hard questions and sitting in silence waiting for answers to surface. Pure magic. This will be a book to read every 6 months for some serious personal reflection.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is phenomenal. I encourage everyone to read this.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Inward by Yung Pueblo is a beautiful collection of spiritual poems. Two serve as an intro of sorts, followed by 5 sections- Distance, Union, Interlude, Self-Love, and Understanding. This book dealt me a gut punch. These poems sang to my soul, conjuring sadness and longing, but hope as well. They are about loving yourself, and finding your own self-worth, which I am in desperate need of doing. I just have such a hard time of it. I feel patently unlovable. I do get locked in obsessions and binges, trying to use outer things to fill an emptiness that cannot be filled with frivolity. I ended up purchasing a copy of my own, and enjoy flipping through to random poems, using the one I land on as a meditation focus. Highly recommended for those who enjoy poetry, and all things spiritual.***Many thanks to the Netgalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I requested this from the library because I have repeatedly seen it mentioned as "great poetry". This is not poetry. This is the author's guide? experience? narration of? his journey to self love, kindness, search for happiness. Which is great for him, but there is very little actual practical advice in here. I also think this author is young and has fortunate enough to not yet been faced with caregiving duties that cannot just be "let go". Or difficult people you cannot simply cut out of your life (bosses, teachers, coworkers, family). Or the drag of health problems, job searches, and so on. But I guess that is also why his pen name means "young people" (per author bio).I can see why some people might love this book. I also think I am decades past that point in my life.(Shelved as poetry though I disagree.)
Book preview
Inward - Yung Pueblo
two of the great lessons humanity
will learn in the 21st century will be:
to harm another is to harm oneself
when you heal yourself, you heal the world
reclaim your power,
heal yourself,
love yourself,
know yourself—
these phrases are becoming
more and more common. why?
because they are the pathways to
our own freedom and happiness
contents
distance
union
interlude
self-love
understanding
distance
before i could release
the weight of my sadness
and pain, i first had
to honor its existence
i was never addicted
to one thing;
i was addicted to filling
a void
within myself
with things other
than my own love
to solely
attempt
to love others
without first loving yourself
is to build a home
without a strong foundation
three things make life harder:
not loving yourself
refusing to grow
not letting go
i lived so long
with a closed heart,
not because
i was afraid to get hurt
but because i was afraid
of the pain
i had hidden away
before we can
heal and let go,
what ails us
deeply
must first
come to the
surface
i spent so much time
creating versions of myself
that were far from the truth,
characters i would perform
depending on who was around
layers that could hide
the inner dance of turmoil,
between my lack of confidence,
the pain i did not understand,
and the uneasiness that comes
with reaching out to others for the
love that i was not giving myself
(before the healing)
i kept running away
from my darkness
until i understood
that in it i would
find my freedom
many of us walk the earth as strangers to ourselves, not knowing what is true, why we feel what we feel, actively working to repress experiences or ideas that are too jarring for us to observe and release. it is a paradox occurring in the human mind: we run away from what we do not want to face, from what brings feelings of pain, and from problems we don’t have answers to, but in our running away from ourselves we are also running away from our own freedom.
it is through the observation of all that we are and accepting what we observe with honesty and without judgment that we can release the tension that creates delusions in the mind and walls around the heart. this is why the keys to our freedom lie in our darkness: because when we observe our darkness by bringing our light of awareness inward, the ego begins to dissipate into nothingness and the subconscious slowly becomes understood.
the mind is full of shadows, but shadows cannot withstand the patience and perseverance of light—our minds can become like stars, powerful united fields of pure light. but unlike a star, the healed mind will dwell in awareness and wisdom.
when we disconnect
from our pain