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.
TARA BRACHFear 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.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives 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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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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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In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what’s happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.
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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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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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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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On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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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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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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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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