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

Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
TARA BRACH

Choice Lying Mindset Response Space
As we free ourselves from the suffering of ‘something is wrong with me, ‘we trust and express the fullness of who we are.’
TARA BRACH

Expression Freedom Suffering Trust Wrong
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
Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
TARA BRACH

Act Choice Desire Freedom Live
Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
TARA BRACH

Carry Feeling Path Travel
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’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.
TARA BRACH

Acceptance Achievement Authentic Difficult Present Self Love
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
Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
TARA BRACH

Awake Challenge Compassionate Face Path People
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.
TARA BRACH

Different Fear Imperfection Life Moments Wrong
Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
TARA BRACH

Acceptance Experience Live Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual Willing
Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
TARA BRACH

Happiness Lying Missing Present
People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
TARA BRACH

Angry Conflict Feeling People
Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
TARA BRACH

Beautiful End Offering Ourselves Pursuit Spirit
The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
TARA BRACH

Healing Intention Life Love Possible Powerful Present Simplicity Soft
Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
TARA BRACH

Desire End Suffering

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