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.
TARA BRACHObserving desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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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There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
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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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Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
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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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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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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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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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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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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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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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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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Telling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person’s vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that’s very fluid and graceful.
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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.
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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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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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When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
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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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The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to “the sweetness of belonging,” is acceptance – acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.
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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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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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