Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
TARA BRACHThe boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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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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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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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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The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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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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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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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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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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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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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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