We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.
TARA BRACHPerhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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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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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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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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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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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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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Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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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When we open to love, we become love.
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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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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
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