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.
TARA BRACHWe can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-moment lives.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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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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When we open to love, we become love.
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When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.
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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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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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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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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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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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The 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.
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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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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 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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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to “the sweetness of belonging,” is acceptance – acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.
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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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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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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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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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