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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

Tara Brach

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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Expression Freedom Suffering Trust Wrong
Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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Easy Eyes Love Ourselves Praise Time
Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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Carry Feeling Path Travel
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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Change Different Feeling Happiness Life Live Wait
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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Act Expectation Kindness Oneself Return
Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Existence Imperfection Natural Personal Problem
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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Dance Each Grace Kind Person Space Togetherness Truth Vulnerable
Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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Body Emotion InterAction Thinking
When we open to love, we become love.
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Inspirational Love Open Spiritual
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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Commitment Fact Habit Judgement Myself Recognition Stop Story Strong
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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Arise Art Capacity Development Experience Natural Ourselves Sacred
Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Sight Thinking Yourself
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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Choice Present Relate
Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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Future Help Meditation Moments Present Thinking
People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Angry Conflict Feeling People
Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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Attitude Challenge Determination Freedom Life Suffering

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

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