Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
TARA BRACHThe most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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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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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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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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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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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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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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When we open to love, we become love.
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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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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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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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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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But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
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As we free ourselves from the suffering of ‘something is wrong with me, ‘we trust and express the fullness of who we are.’
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