black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

Tara Brach

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.
TARA BRACH

Action Balance Clarity Compassionate Feeling Life Ourselves Responsibility
Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
TARA BRACH

Believe Effort Initiate Moments Ourselves Pain Wrong
Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
TARA BRACH

Awake Challenge Compassionate Face Path People
We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-moment lives.
TARA BRACH

Heart Live Mindset Moments Ourselves True
Become a witness to your thoughts.
TARA BRACH

Sight Thinking Yourself
Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
TARA BRACH

Carry Feeling Path Travel
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.
TARA BRACH

Dance Each Grace Kind Person Space Togetherness Truth Vulnerable
There are some things we can’t choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them.
TARA BRACH

Choice Present Relate
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.
TARA BRACH

Act Expectation Kindness Oneself Return
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 BRACH

Biology Nervous Ourselves Response Safety Science Smile
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.
TARA BRACH

Beginning Creation Heart Kindness Love
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
TARA BRACH

Bold Imperfection Liberty Life Mess Wonderful
If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
TARA BRACH

Beautiful Heart Mystery Ourselves Poetry Touch World
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.
TARA BRACH

Fear Flaw Live Moments Myself Person Prison Sacrifice Stop
On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
TARA BRACH

Acceptance Discover Path Perfection Sacred Strive
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.
TARA BRACH

Change Different Feeling Happiness Life Live Wait

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tara Brach Quotes