On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
TARA BRACHSuffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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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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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When we open to love, we become love.
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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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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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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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Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.
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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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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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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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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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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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