Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.
TARA BRACHAs we free ourselves from the suffering of ‘something is wrong with me, ‘we trust and express the fullness of who we are.’
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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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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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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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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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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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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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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