We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-moment lives.
TARA BRACHBy 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.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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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There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
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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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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what’s happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.
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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
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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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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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Self-judgment continues to arise – it’s a strong habit – but the fact that I made a conscious commitment to recognize it has helped me stop feeding the story of being unworthy.
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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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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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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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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 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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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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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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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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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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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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