The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
TARA BRACHWe’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.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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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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We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-moment lives.
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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to 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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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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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
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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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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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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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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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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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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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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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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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When we open to love, we become love.
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Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
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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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Self-judgment continues to arise – it’s a strong habit – but the fact that I made a conscious commitment to recognize it has helped me stop feeding the story of being unworthy.
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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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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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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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