Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
TARA BRACHRelaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
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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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Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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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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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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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 two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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