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.
TARA BRACHOur attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.
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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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Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.
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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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By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.
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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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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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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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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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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
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