Become a witness to your thoughts.
TARA BRACHPeople don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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.
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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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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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When we open to love, we become love.
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Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor – without expecting something in return.
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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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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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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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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
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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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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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The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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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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