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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

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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Act Choice Desire Freedom Live
Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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Easy Eyes Love Ourselves Praise Time
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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Alive Awake Body Discover Ourselves World
Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Happiness Lying Missing Present
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
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Bold Imperfection Liberty Life Mess Wonderful
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.
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Change Different Feeling Happiness Life Live Wait
Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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Heart Kindness Love Moments Purity Yourself
Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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Beautiful End Offering Ourselves Pursuit Spirit
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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Biology Nervous Ourselves Response Safety Science Smile
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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Different Fear Imperfection Life Moments Wrong
The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to “the sweetness of belonging,” is acceptance – acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.
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Acceptance Judgement Ourselves Reach Sweet Worth
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.
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Fear Flaw Live Moments Myself Person Prison Sacrifice Stop
The 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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Healing Intention Life Love Possible Powerful Present Simplicity Soft
Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Existence Imperfection Natural Personal Problem
Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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Encounter Path Yourself
Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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Attention Belief Ourselves Suffering Truth

The 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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The 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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