When we open to love, we become love.
TARA BRACH
Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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When we open to love, we become love.
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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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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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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
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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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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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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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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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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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Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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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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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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