Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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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Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-moment lives.
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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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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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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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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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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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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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There are some things we can’t choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them.
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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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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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When we open to love, we become love.
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By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.
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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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