Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
TARA BRACHExtend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor – without expecting something in return.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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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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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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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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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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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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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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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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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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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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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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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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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