People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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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.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor – without expecting something in return.
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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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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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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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Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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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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Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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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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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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The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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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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