When we open to love, we become love.
TARA BRACHPeople don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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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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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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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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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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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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Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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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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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Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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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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But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
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