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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.

Tara Brach

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
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Acceptance Discover Path Perfection Sacred Strive
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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Fear Flaw Live Moments Myself Person Prison Sacrifice Stop
Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.
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Arise Art Capacity Development Experience Natural Ourselves Sacred
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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Change Different Feeling Happiness Life Live Wait
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
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
Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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Attention Expression Love Pay
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
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
Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Existence Imperfection Natural Personal Problem
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
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Bold Imperfection Liberty Life Mess Wonderful
People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Angry Conflict Feeling People
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
Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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Awake Challenge Compassionate Face Path People
Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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Carry Feeling Path Travel
Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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Acceptance Experience Live Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual Willing

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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