Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
TARA BRACHOn this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
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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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We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-moment lives.
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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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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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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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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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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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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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There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
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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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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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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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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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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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