People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
TARA BRACHOn this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
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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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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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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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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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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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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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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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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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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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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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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 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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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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The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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