We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-moment lives.
TARA BRACHThere are some things we can’t choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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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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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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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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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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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
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There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
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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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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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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 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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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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As we free ourselves from the suffering of ‘something is wrong with me, ‘we trust and express the fullness of who we are.’
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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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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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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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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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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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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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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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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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