Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
TARA BRACHEven a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.
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We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.
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There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
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The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.
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Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
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The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to “the sweetness of belonging,” is acceptance – acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.
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