Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
TARA BRACHWe’re so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it’s difficult to be authentic and trust that we’ll be accepted just as we are.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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As we free ourselves from the suffering of ‘something is wrong with me, ‘we trust and express the fullness of who we are.’
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Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.
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Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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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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We’re so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it’s difficult to be authentic and trust that we’ll be accepted just as we are.
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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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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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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
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