When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
TARA BRACHEmotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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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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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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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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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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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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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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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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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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When we open to love, we become love.
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