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Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.

Tara Brach

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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Acceptance Boundary Freedom Ourselves
Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Happiness Lying Missing Present
On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
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Acceptance Discover Path Perfection Sacred Strive
Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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Easy Eyes Love Ourselves Praise Time
When we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
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Alive Awake Body Discover Ourselves World
Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.
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Action Balance Clarity Compassionate Feeling Life Ourselves Responsibility
Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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Future Help Meditation Moments Present Thinking
Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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Act Choice Desire Freedom Live
Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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Body Emotion InterAction Thinking
Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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Heart Kindness Love Moments Purity Yourself
The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.
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Company Connection Fact Freedom Path Spiritual
Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Desire End Suffering
Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Existence Imperfection Natural Personal Problem
Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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Encounter Path Yourself
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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Expression Freedom Suffering Trust Wrong
Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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Life Perspective Philosophy Reality Wrong

Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.

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