Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
TARA BRACHEven a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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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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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
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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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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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When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.
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The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
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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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Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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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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