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 BRACHIf our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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There are some things we can’t choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them.
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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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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.
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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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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.
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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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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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The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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When we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
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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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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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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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