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There are some things we can’t choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them.

Tara Brach

The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to “the sweetness of belonging,” is acceptance – acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.
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Acceptance Judgement Ourselves Reach Sweet Worth
Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.
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Action Balance Clarity Compassionate Feeling Life Ourselves Responsibility
Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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Beautiful End Offering Ourselves Pursuit Spirit
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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Beginning Creation Heart Kindness Love
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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Beautiful Heart Mystery Ourselves Poetry Touch World
Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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Awake Challenge Compassionate Face Path People
When we open to love, we become love.
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Inspirational Love Open Spiritual
Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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Future Help Meditation Moments Present Thinking
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
Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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Life Perspective Philosophy Reality Wrong
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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Freedom Heart Ideas Life Ourselves Philosophy
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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Expression Freedom Suffering Trust Wrong
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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Company Connection Fact Freedom Path Spiritual
With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.
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Accompany Drama Feeling Kind Mindset Presence Recognition Training
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
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

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