Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
TARA BRACHPeople don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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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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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Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.
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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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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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Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
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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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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
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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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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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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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