Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
TARA BRACHWith 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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Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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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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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.
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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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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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When we open to love, we become love.
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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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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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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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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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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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Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor – without expecting something in return.
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Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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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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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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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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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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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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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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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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Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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