Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
TARA BRACHMeditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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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Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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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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Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor – without expecting something in return.
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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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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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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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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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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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