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.
TARA BRACHRadical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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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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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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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 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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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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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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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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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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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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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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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 two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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