Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
TARA BRACHWhen 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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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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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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We’re so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it’s difficult to be authentic and trust that we’ll be accepted just as we are.
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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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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 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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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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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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The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to “the sweetness of belonging,” is acceptance – acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.
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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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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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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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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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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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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.
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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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But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
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Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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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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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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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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