Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
TARA BRACHPaying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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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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Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
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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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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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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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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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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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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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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