Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
TARA BRACHPeople don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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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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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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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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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Self-judgment continues to arise – it’s a strong habit – but the fact that I made a conscious commitment to recognize it has helped me stop feeding the story of being unworthy.
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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-moment lives.
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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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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.
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With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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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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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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