Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
TARA BRACHPeople don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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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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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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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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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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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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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On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
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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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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real 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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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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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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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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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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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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When we open to love, we become love.
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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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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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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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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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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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Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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