Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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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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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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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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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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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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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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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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The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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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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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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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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