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.
TARA BRACHOn this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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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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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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The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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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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The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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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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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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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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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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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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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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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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