Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
TARA BRACHEven a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
TARA BRACHIn 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.
TARA BRACHEmotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
TARA BRACHWhen 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.
TARA BRACHWhen we open to love, we become love.
TARA BRACHWith 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.
TARA BRACHThe muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.
TARA BRACHSelf-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.
TARA BRACHPeople don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
TARA BRACHRelaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
TARA BRACHWe 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.
TARA BRACHNothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
TARA BRACHImperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
TARA BRACHMeditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
TARA BRACHFear 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.
TARA BRACHThrough 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.
TARA BRACH