Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
TARA BRACHThe most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
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Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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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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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
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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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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
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