Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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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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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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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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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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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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Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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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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The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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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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Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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