Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
TARA BRACHPain 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.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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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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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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Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what’s happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.
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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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There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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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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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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 open to love, we become love.
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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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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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