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.
TARA BRACHIn 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.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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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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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany 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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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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But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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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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Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
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Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.
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