We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-moment lives.
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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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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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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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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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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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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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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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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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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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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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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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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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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When we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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