Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.
TARA BRACHRadical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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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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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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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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On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
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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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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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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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The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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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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When we open to love, we become love.
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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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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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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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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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