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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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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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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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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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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Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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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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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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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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