Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
TARA BRACHBut this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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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Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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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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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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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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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Telling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person’s vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that’s very fluid and graceful.
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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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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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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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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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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real 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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We’re so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it’s difficult to be authentic and trust that we’ll be accepted just as we are.
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Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.
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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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Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Extend 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.
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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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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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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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