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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.

Tara Brach

Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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Life Perspective Philosophy Reality Wrong
Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Sight Thinking Yourself
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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Beginning Creation Heart Kindness Love
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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Different Fear Imperfection Life Moments Wrong
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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Dance Each Grace Kind Person Space Togetherness Truth Vulnerable
Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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Beautiful End Offering Ourselves Pursuit Spirit
But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
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Act Life Message Revolution Tender Time Treat
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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Beautiful Heart Mystery Ourselves Poetry Touch World
Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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Encounter Path Yourself
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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Freedom Heart Ideas Life Ourselves Philosophy
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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Acceptance Judgement Ourselves Reach Sweet Worth
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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Company Connection Fact Freedom Path Spiritual
Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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Carry Feeling Path Travel
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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Biology Nervous Ourselves Response Safety Science Smile
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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Big Freedom Live Old Pattern Tragedy
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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Choice Present Relate

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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