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.
TARA BRACHSelf-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.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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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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When we open to love, we become love.
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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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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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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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The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
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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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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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